Limitless Monday: Giving Yourself A Second Chance

Limitless Monday – Giving yourself a second chance

Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonalds, once said, “You only need to get it right once”.

That type of positive thinking requires a mentality of resilience, acceptance, and the ability to grant ourselves second or, in many cases, multiple chances.

However, Ray Kroc and the many others who achieved massive success have also had a long line of setbacks to analyze and dissect. We rarely reach the moon on the first attempt.

If you keep trying, not only will you make it to the promised land, you will appreciate it far more than if you landed there on your first attempt.

Most importantly, you will notice you have most of the territory to yourself. The other space cadets stopped trying, leaving all the rewards for you.

This Monday I want to talk about achieving massive success, and some powerful techniques we can employ to turn your goals from a dream to a real possibility.

The first is, never talk about failure.

Change your thinking in this regard.

Think of what others call failure as a stepping stone. A setback is only a failure if you don’t learn from it and give up.

Every painful event in your life is a chance for learning. The pain is there for a reason. It’s a sign that you are in uncomfortable territory.

Discomfort is your mind and or body telling you it is learning something that is foreign to it. It’s your mind and body slowly adapting to its new circumstances.

Why do you think most people give up learning a new language? Your mind rebels every time you think about starting. It knows it is going to be put under stress. And most of us avoid stress at all costs.

However, as is always the case, once your hour of Mandarin is up, you feel great, you feel like you accomplished something.

You have to learn from all kinds of setbacks if you are to succeed in life. It’s going to be hard. The second powerful technique is to always ask yourself two questions after an apparent setback or upon receipt of bad news.

What can I learn from this?
What is good about this?

These questions are not easy to ask. Who wants to ask oneself, “what can I learn from this?” when you get dumped by your partner, your business goes bust, or you lose your job? But you must ask that question of yourself. And then you must say, what is good about this?

The reason why you are going to succeed in life is because you reframed failure. And by doing this you suddenly lose the fear that comes with the prospect of failure.

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And that will make you a risk taker. Risk taking is a necessary ingredient to success in all aspects of life, from relationships to business ventures to our careers.

There are levels of risk taking. You don’t need to be at the same level as Richard Branson, but you must take risks and push yourself when your natural reaction is to shy away.

And sometimes you will shy away, but as long as you know the dangers of this and push yourself the next time, then that is progress.

So today I want you to do something that you have been avoiding, something that you thought was too risky. There must be something.

Today take a risk. Risk taking can be learned. It’s like anything, you just need to condition your mind. That conditioning starts today.

Happy Monday!

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