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Today, we're going to be talking about failure and how to overcome failure. Let's get real.

One of the biggest roadblocks between you

and the life that you want, everything that you want, is your fear of screwing up, your fear,

that deep, nagging fear of failure. And it's keeping you stuck in some sort of way. And so what does this look like?

Maybe you hold yourself back because you don't want to make mistakes. And you chase perfectionism,

quote unquote, and say, you're a perfectionist like it's some badge of honor like you should just be

wearing a shirt that says, look at me, I'm a perfectionist. Or maybe you're a perfectionist like it's some badge of honor like you should just be wearing a shirt

that says look at me I'm a perfectionist or maybe you're just scared that somebody will judge you

if you mess up you're scared of other people's opinions and so you're like I'm just going to hold

myself back because if I do go out there and do the thing that I want and I do screw up in some sort of way, I'm going to hear people's judgments. I'm going to hear people's opinions. And that makes me feel worse about myself. So I'm just going to stay quiet and stay in the background. Does sound familiar? I hear it all the time. Whenever I ask people and I get on a live and it's a Zoom call with 2,000 people,

I'm like, what's your number one fear that's holding you back from creating a life that you want?

90% of them, at least, is the fear of failure. And they think they're afraid of failing,

but they're not afraid of failing. And that's what we're going to talk about. Here's the

the whole kicker to all of this.

Don't mess it up, that mindset of, I don't want to mess up. I want to make sure I do it right the first time.

Whatever it might be is the worst thing that you can do for yourself in trying to become successful,

or trying to build an amazing life or trying to

bring out your full potential. And I'm going to I'm going to share a story with you that really

changed my mindset on this. A couple of years ago, I was working on becoming a pilot. And I was

getting my pilot's license. And that alone is a journey, right? So it's,

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