Permission To Fail

One of the toughest things I’ve learned is that there is no real success in anything until I’ve given myself or someone else permission to fail.  Without the real opportunity to stretch your wings in life, sports, art or ministry, you’ll never know what you can achieve if you’re too worried about not getting it right the first time.

So breathe.

And then make a deal with yourself that you’ll try whatever it takes even if it means you fail the first time . . . or the fifth time . . . or the twentieth time.

Learn from the mistakes.

Own the failure.

Then try again until you reach your goal.

Oh, one more thing.

If you do fail and you hurt others in the process, own that too.  Apologize and ask for forgiveness.  Then learn from that and move another step in the right direction.

There is freedom to succeed when you grant yourself and others permission to fail.

 

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