| How much does fear of failure really restrict you | | | | failure to correct course and they kept going. |
| in your personal growth and the process of | | | | These failures contributed to their personal |
| leadership development? Certainly any aspiring | | | | leadership development and helped them to learn |
| leader understands that an important part of their | | | | what worked and what didn't. |
| personal leadership development is learning to | | | | For example: the great baseball player Ty Cobb |
| effectively deal with failure. Does fear of failure | | | | stole more bases than anyone else during his time. |
| stop you from doing some of the things that you | | | | He also got called out for failing to steal bases |
| know will make you a greater leader? What if | | | | more than anyone. Which one is he remembered |
| you could finally overcome the fear of failure for | | | | for? What about the ten thousand attempts at |
| good? If you are ready to learn the secret to | | | | creating the light bulb by Thomas Edison? You |
| this, and how it can set your leadership | | | | know, the actor and screenplay writer Sylvester |
| development on the fast track to success, then | | | | Stallone said: "I have learned that success comes |
| keep reading. | | | | from the ability to effectively manage failure." |
| First of all, the antidote for fear is always greater | | | | How can you learn to effectively manage failure if |
| understanding of what that fear represents. Most | | | | you keep running from it? |
| of the time, when we look the thing that we fear | | | | You see, even if you are able to succeed in |
| dead in the face, it becomes less of a threat to | | | | getting what you are after you will not |
| us. That said, fear of failure is based on ignorance | | | | experience the leadership development which is |
| as to what failure really represents. You see, | | | | needed to build the character for you to sustain |
| failure is just as crucial to your personal leadership | | | | that success. Things which come easy to people |
| development as success is. This is because there | | | | often go just as easy. However, when you are |
| simply is no chance of success without failure | | | | willing to pay the price of success you attach |
| occurring as well. Failure is the price that you pay | | | | more value to it. You work harder to keep it and |
| to eventually achieve success. | | | | you appreciate it more. Not only that, you know |
| All of the people in history who have | | | | what it takes to duplicate the process correctly, |
| accomplished great things, as well as those today | | | | over and over and over. |
| have one thing in common: they all have a | | | | If you want to reap the rewards of true |
| tremendous amount of failures under their belts. | | | | leadership development and enjoy your success, |
| They succeeded not because they were better | | | | there is nothing to fear from paying the price. |
| than anyone else at what they did. They | | | | That price is failure, action, failure, action and |
| succeeded because they made more attempts. | | | | finally success. |
| When those attempts failed, they used that | | | | |