“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” ~Charles Kettering
What would you do if you were guaranteed success? What would you start if you knew you could not fail? What dream has been wet down and stuffed in the back of the closet because you were afraid you would never be able to reach it?
Here’s the problem with that kind of thinking: As long as the dream is left in the darkened closet of your discarded dreams, you guarantee the very thing you put the dream in the closet to protect yourself from in the first place.
If you fear failure, never acting on your dreams guarantees it.
If you’re worried you won’t measure up, ignoring your inner call to do something more ensures it. If you fear pain, living life far below your potential, regretting what could have been is the worst kind of pain. If you fear ridicule, the loudest critic will always scream the most biting attacks every time you look in the mirror.
Instead of letting fear dictate the parameters of your life, allow belief to.
Believe it is not possible to fail, that there are no ultimate obstacles, that you are endowed with amazing power and ability that may as-of-yet be unharnessed, uncovered and underdeveloped, but is there, waiting for you to discover it and use it and do and become what you’ve only dreamed of before.
Life awaits you. Believe in it. Now go create something inspiring, amazing and beautiful.
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Thanks for the inspiring post Ken. Change that fear of failure into the belief that everyday you are pursuing your dream then you are succeeding and not failing. Don’t let others dictate what success is. Every little step you take in a certain direction is a success in its own way. I love the Charles Kettering Quote. : D.
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“Succeeding at not failing”–I like that. So true, Sebastian, success is whatever we want it to mean. I became a high school public school teacher, forgoing any chance of financial success (at least at that chosen profession), in part, to be a successful father. I wanted a career that would allow me lots of time at home when my kids were home–and it’s served me well. 🙂
Yes, an awesome quote. Imagine the confidence we would have starting into anything if we truly believed it was impossible to fail. Think of the obstacles we would crash through, knowing it was only temporary.
Thanks for the comment, my friend. Great insights.
Hi Ken,
You’ve posted an insightful piece there.
It’s success that we’re all after in some form or the other most of our lives.
One powerful way is to keep score of past accomplishments.
Encourage yourself particularly about the past successes you have achieved.No one in this world is a complete failure,and no one is a complete success either.T
here is mix of both for every one.Yet super successful people are those who succeed more often.That’s because they think differently about failure.They do not start permanently camping in failure.They seek encouragement from their previous successes .
That’s all you need to do too.Whatever small or great successes,and achievements you have,you must draw encouragement from them.Always.
Thanks
Mona
Hi Ken, another very inspiring post. I’ve always loved reading your articles, it gives me a good perspective of life. It has always inspired me to move forward and stay positive. I’ll definitely share this again with my colleagues. Thanks.
I am always amazed at how the universe works. I’m behind on reading blogs – yours included – and tonight I’m catching up. I am in the midst of a major life decision – literally today – and I’m terrified. Afraid that this huge chance that I want to take, need to take, will end in failure. I can not tell you how apropos these words are tonight and how much I simply have to believe I was meant to see them. I believe God really does speak to us in clear and direct ways and I’m certain this is one of them.
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“Believe it!” “Just believe!” “Stop being in fear!” “Think differently!” “Encourage yourself!”
I wish someone would tell us the HOW of it all. What does it look like in real life? How does one ‘walk in out’? How does one go from being in fear, having limiting beliefs and “just stop feeling that way and just believe”?
Short but very powerful post. The truth is every success comes with a failure, if we can’t fail we cannot be a successful person. We need to have a strong belief that we can do everything, there is no impossible word for humans. Thanks for sharing Ken:)
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Thank Ken, this post very inspirit people, most important to start something to success is people must believe they can success. And when people do nothing then they will get nothing. Thank for share