Most people hate to fail, myself included. But most people also know that on the journey you’re going to take some falls.
So what if we changed our mindset around failure? What if we realised that having a go was just as important, if not more important, than getting the outcome?
What if we taught the next generation that having a go, and failing along the way, was more important than not failing ever?
This very approach helped Sara Blakely to become the youngest ever self-made female billionaire in America with her business Spanx.
Worth thinking about.
If you keep saying ‘the bad guy won’ and judging everyone who supports them as an idiot, then you are playing right into the ‘good vs evil’ fallacy.
At the South Island Show Jumping Champs late last year, my daughters won the classes they were entered in.
A while ago we were at a horse show. Zara and I walked the course, and I read the jump off and told Zara what it was.