People always ask if I'm afraid or scared to try or do something.... I guess there is always some inhibition on something "outside your comfort zone" or something "challenging," but how do you grow if you don't challenge your limits....?
In short, my answer is nope
never ever; but what I am afraid of is not trying or doing it and the feeling of regret later. Do you ever wonder if you could have done "this" or "that" or even not done "this' or "that".....
Too many people are afraid of failure; but isn't not trying or doing
something failure of what you could do or could become?
You've heard me say hundreds of times that
nothing is difficult, it just takes time, and that is the truth. Prove me wrong and try something "outside your comfort zone" or something "challenging" and stick with it! Because it's the start that stops most people, and if you don't quit, you can't
fail! It just may take you a little longer than some.
Get inspired and do something new today!
Regards,
Greg
Greg DiRenzo, M.S.
"Small Hinges Swing Big Doors"
This reminds me of some great things that John McCain said years back that I try to keep in mind. Sorry so long:
ReplyDelete"Speaking from considerable experience, failing stinks. Just don’t be undone by it. Move on. Failure is no more a permanent condition than is success. 'Defeat is never fatal,' Winston Churchill observed. 'Victory is never final. It’s courage that counts'. I rely on Churchill again to make my point. 'Courage is . . . the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.' Without courage we can possess no other virtue securely. Without courage honesty, compassion, justice, happiness, love are fragile qualities – admired, sought, professed, perhaps, but held cheaply and surrendered without a fight. That’s what we mean when we claim the courage of our convictions. Not that our convictions possess an innate courage, but that if we lack the courage to hold them, not just when they accord with the convictions of others, but against threatening opposition, in the moment of their testing, they’re superficial, vain things that add nothing to our self-respect or our society’s respect for the virtues we profess. We can admire virtue and abhor corruption sincerely, but without courage we are corruptible.
If you do the things you think you cannot do, you'll feel your resistance, your hope, your dignity and your courage grow stronger every time you prove it."
Great quotes!
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