Mindset Monday - What’s Worth Failing At?

There’s the cliched question “what would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” It’s meant to help you decide what you’re passionate about and then build your career around that.

I’m going to flip it on its head this week and ask you “What’s worth failing at?” What is so important to you to try that you’re willing to put in the effort regardless of the outcome?

The reason I ask this is fear of failure can be paralysing. We don’t want to look stupid. We don’t want to waste our time. We don’t want to lose our shirt. And all too often this fear of failure stops us from feeling anxious in the short term, but leads to a lot of regrets in the long term.

Asking yourself what you’re willing to fail at is a short cut to your values and priorities - what’s really important to you? Also, because we’re willing to fail we’re able to give 100% to our effort, without keeping an eye on the scoreboard. Ultimately, a lot of the results are out of our control - 2020 has probably taught us all that. But our attitude and our effort is always in our control, and the thing we can feel proud of, regardless of what the end result is.

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