I remember an incident when I was about 7/8 years old playing outside with friends trying out some somersault moves. We were having so much fun and the best part of the game was outdoing each other and having the best complete somersault move. Those who couldn't do a complete one were mercilessly taunted and laughed at.
Not wanting to be laughed at, I of course pulled my best moves and was the pro for the many rounds we did. Well, that was until I was thrown off balance and unceremoniously landed on my right arm with a huge thud. My arm hit a stone and the end result of the impact was an open fracture {need to know how bad it was? a couple of decades later, I still have a scar on my arm}. A bleeding arm and a bone sticking out were not enough to deter me from doing somersaults; after crying for a couple of minutes due to the pain I was back in the game. No need to stop having fun just because of some minor inconvenience, it wasn't worth it.
In retrospect, I wonder what was going through my head when I ignored a badly injured arm and continued using it to do somersaults mainly due to the fun I was having. I can also recall the many times as kids playing we would get injured, cry for a while then get back to the game forgetting the momentary pain. I have been working towards getting this mentality back. As an adult, there are countless times that I have walked away from opportunities - be they business/career/relationships for fear of getting hurt again or failing again. I had for so long constricted myself within the "once - bitten - twice - shy - bubble" that I let go of opportunities{some of which I look back at and wonder, how bad would it have been to try just one more time?}. Among the resolves I made when 2015 was starting was to always get up, dust off & keep moving. Half way through the year, I'm glad I have reawakened that 7/8 year old who would push through the pain of a fractured arm to keep having fun.
I can tell you for free, the joy of trying again when you first don't succeed is unexplainable. You get to launch out wiser and avoid the mistakes you made the first time round. You will also be wading through familiar territory. So it doesn't matter how many times you fail/fall, you owe it to yourself to get back up, dust off and keep moving. Scared of failure? Don't be, we all fail at some point in life and as Billionaire Daymond John - one of the Sharks in Shark Tank- says "the more times one has failed and still kicking, they understand what they want and hence less mistakes in future". Daymond adds that he has failed so many times that he knows what doesn't work for him, what he doesn't like or he is not good at.
GET UP, DUST OFF & KEEP MOVING
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Not wanting to be laughed at, I of course pulled my best moves and was the pro for the many rounds we did. Well, that was until I was thrown off balance and unceremoniously landed on my right arm with a huge thud. My arm hit a stone and the end result of the impact was an open fracture {need to know how bad it was? a couple of decades later, I still have a scar on my arm}. A bleeding arm and a bone sticking out were not enough to deter me from doing somersaults; after crying for a couple of minutes due to the pain I was back in the game. No need to stop having fun just because of some minor inconvenience, it wasn't worth it.
In retrospect, I wonder what was going through my head when I ignored a badly injured arm and continued using it to do somersaults mainly due to the fun I was having. I can also recall the many times as kids playing we would get injured, cry for a while then get back to the game forgetting the momentary pain. I have been working towards getting this mentality back. As an adult, there are countless times that I have walked away from opportunities - be they business/career/relationships for fear of getting hurt again or failing again. I had for so long constricted myself within the "once - bitten - twice - shy - bubble" that I let go of opportunities{some of which I look back at and wonder, how bad would it have been to try just one more time?}. Among the resolves I made when 2015 was starting was to always get up, dust off & keep moving. Half way through the year, I'm glad I have reawakened that 7/8 year old who would push through the pain of a fractured arm to keep having fun.
I can tell you for free, the joy of trying again when you first don't succeed is unexplainable. You get to launch out wiser and avoid the mistakes you made the first time round. You will also be wading through familiar territory. So it doesn't matter how many times you fail/fall, you owe it to yourself to get back up, dust off and keep moving. Scared of failure? Don't be, we all fail at some point in life and as Billionaire Daymond John - one of the Sharks in Shark Tank- says "the more times one has failed and still kicking, they understand what they want and hence less mistakes in future". Daymond adds that he has failed so many times that he knows what doesn't work for him, what he doesn't like or he is not good at.
GET UP, DUST OFF & KEEP MOVING