Daily Leadership Quote

Today's #leadership quote

“I’ve observed that if individuals who prevail in a high competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.” Bill Walsh

Out of fear of rejection and ridicule many of us learned early in life to fear failure and not to take ownership of anything negative that may befall us. When we fail as everyone inevitably does we therefore attempt to sweep it under the carpet or worse blame it on external factors beyond our control. Admitting to the failure would lessen our own opinions of ourselves. If we can avoid the responsibility we feel that we didn't really fail. Unfortunately that mindset leads to two very negative consequences that limit our forward progress. The first is that we form limiting beliefs and rarely take risks or the uncomfortable action required to make quantum achievements. The second is that we don't learn from our failures and therefore limit our growth. Failure is in reality just a normal part of the growth cycle. To achieve we need to accept failure, embrace it and learn from our mistakes. Be proud of your failures and learn from them because they will inevitably be what leads you to greater accomplishments.

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