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Are You Courageous Enough to Fail?
Few accept to walk the tight rope over an unknown and scary zone to get to success waiting on the other side
Have you ever heard of Philippe Petit? In 1974, he performed the illegal act of walking on a tight rope between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City. His stunt received international coverage and was even made into a book, The Walk, and later a movie, Man on a Rope.
Philippe’s chances of failure were very high. In fact, he risked the ultimate thing one can: his own life. This was definitely an extreme example, but I wanted to illustrate the parallels that success often feels like walking on a tight rope.
Success is never quick nor easy. One must work hard for it. Yet some people are making massive mistakes in how they go about achieving success.
As a business coach, I regularly see a couple of worrisome behaviors that hold entrepreneurs back from success:
The Tsunami Fail
Kent has been a business owner for several years. He struggles, so he has a day job employed for someone. But his dream is to quit and succeed in his business.
Kent has a good dream, but his stubbornness is a problem. Kent is in denial. Kent believes he is…
