Fear of Failure

I want to begin with a quote that I think we can all apply to our lives...

"Don't hang around with losers, if you're going to be successful, hang around with successful people. Successful people know that failure is part of success. The people that avoid failure also avoid success. It's guts, it's instinct, it's intuition, that's what gets you ahead in the world of business." Robert Kiyosaki, Investor and Multimillionaire, author of RICH DAD POOR DAD.

Achieving success is as simple as making the decision to be successful. Once you've decided to change your life and be successful you have to make the effort to follow through. You begin by changing your unsuccessful environment. Begin by identifying and removing the cynics and negative people from your life. Granted, we all have people in our lives that are a drain on us and usually they are family members that we can't just totally remove from our lives but we can limit our exposure to their negativity. It's crucial to identify them and counteract their negativity with positive people and personal development. Don't encourage their negativity, change the subject. These people have the ability to destroy your motivation and inspiration. Limit your exposure or remove them from your life. It's that simple, relationships drive your success. Find your mentors, you don't have to know them personally. Robert Kiyosaki, Jack Canfield, Donald Trump, many successful people share their wisdom freely, you just have to make the effort to listen.

Get focused, get clarity about what you want to achieve. Writing down your reasons for wanting success, writing down goals and formulating your game plan paves the way. Your why is more important than the how. If you commit and align yourself accordingly the how will come.

Along your journey, study your successes as well as your failures. Understand, mistakes are lessons only if you learn from them. Know you're going to make them and choose to learn from them not hide from them. It's better to approach things regardless of your fears and make mistakes than to take no action at all. Take risks. You have got to climb out of your comfort zone. You have got to get up off the couch. You have got to invest in your education and personal development. You have got to take action, right or wrong, just move.

Bad things are going to happen in your life, deal with them, dust off, don't wallow and just keep going. Learn your lessons and use them during your journey. You'll learn more from your mistakes and failures than you will from studying how. Remember, every successful person experienced their fair share of mistakes and failures before they reached their ultimate goals. When they faced challenges they didn't say to themselves, "oh this isn't for me, I can't do it or this might work for them but not for me." Don't quit before you even get started. So what, you made a mistake or something didn't work out exactly how you planned. Analyze what went wrong and learn from it. No matter what you choose to go for to achieve success it's going to be hard, you will get beat up. Stick with it and remind yourself why you are pursing your dreams - don't wallow in your failures and never, never give up.

What is your plan of action? What are you going to do to be successful? What are you waiting for? If you do nothing, where will you be in 5 years?