4 Steps to Fail Forward (Monday Moments ep. 195)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
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🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Join me every Monday for a quick burst of inspiration on our “Monday Moments” segments.
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews
Life innately involves failures and missteps along the way. Today, I want to share 4 steps to help you successfully fail forward.
- Know what you want.
- Risk becoming more.
- Embrace the gifts of failure.
- Resiliently bounce back and step forward.
This week, enjoy the bumps, lessons, + clarity knowing along the way that the best is yet to come.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friends, and welcome to Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary for this week's Monday moment. |
| 0:14.2 | We create these to help start your week on fire with a quick burst of inspiration. |
| 0:20.0 | Julia Andrews wrote, |
| 0:21.8 | Perseverances failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. |
| 0:27.8 | Last weekend a friend's 10-month-old daughter kept pulling herself up, cruising along a table, |
| 0:34.1 | letting go, putting both arms in the air, stepping away from the table, wiping out, |
| 0:40.6 | and then crying, and then doing it again. And again, and again, this went on all night. My friends, |
| 0:49.1 | children know innately what we forget as we grow. The way to walk forward into life always involves failures |
| 0:56.3 | and missteps along the way. This week, I wanted to share with you four steps that will help you |
| 1:01.7 | successfully fail forward. Fail forward. I love that term. Here we go. Number one, know what you |
| 1:07.7 | want. Know what you want. This sounds obvious, but I find most individuals, most families and most businesses, don't really know what you want. Know what you want. This sounds obvious. But I find most individuals, most families and most businesses don't really know what they want. |
| 1:16.2 | Failing hurts. |
| 1:17.8 | Falling is no fun. |
| 1:19.5 | In order to get back up after falling or failing and really to free yourself to risk falling at all, |
| 1:25.5 | the first step is to know what you want. So my friend, what are you |
| 1:30.3 | moving toward emotionally, financially, physically, professionally, relational or spiritually? |
| 1:36.4 | What are the goals that are driving your activities, your thoughts, and your results in your |
| 1:40.4 | business and in your life? If you aren't clear on this one, after falling, you won't be able to get back up. |
| 1:47.0 | You will stay on the ground. |
| 1:48.9 | So write it down on your heart if you want. |
| 1:51.3 | Know what you really want. |
| 1:52.8 | And it leads directly into number two, which is risk becoming more. |
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