It is a privilege to put your all into something and still fail.

It is a privilege to fail at something that you've put your all into.

There is honor. There is respect, there is confidence, there is strength and experience and wisdom and life force embedded

and integrated into the experience of putting your entire self as a man, as a husband, as a father, as a business

owner into something, even if you don't achieve the outcome that it is that you think you want.

Because the outcome isn't the answer, right?

Whenever we're working on something, sure, the outcome might feel good, the achievement

might feel good, the goal might feel good.

But the reality is, is that the wisdom, the strength, the growth happens when we inject

ourselves, when we push all of our chips into something and allow ourselves for a

moment to risk as men getting it wrong, not winning, not achieving. You see, we've become so

victory-oriented in our culture, so victory-oriented as men,

that we limit ourselves in being able to attack and tackle and take on experiences in life

that we might fail at.

And so we back away.

We shy away.

We put in 50%.

We show up into the relationship at 70%. We show up in our

careers half-assed, right? I mean, there's so many different sayings for this. And recently this came up

with a client because he said these words. He was talking about his life and he said, you know,

I wish that I could just put everything into something because I know it would

be a privilege to fail at something that I've put my all into. And I said, yeah, that's actually it.

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