I need to fail...

[Alchemy]

Hey guys,

I'm new to the forum. (Been stalking for about 6 months since I read TMF). This is the first time I felt I could really add anything to help everyone else so I decided to post. .

A little background on myself. I ran my own financial services business for 6 years. Unknown to me at that time it was just like a job (most of the time, it was worse!). Anytime that market had a hiccup I had to burp all my clients. In truth, this business violated the commandment of time. I never developed it to the point of passivity. Long story short, some health issues struck my family and I had to be absent for an extended amount of time and surprise, surprise the business failed.

Good news is everyone is healthy and healing now, thank God, and I have spent the past 6 months doing some serious searching and digging to come up with a new business to start. I tend to be a creative person so the ideas just keep coming and coming and coming. However, I found myself never pulling the trigger on any of them. I kept looking, researching, digging, trying to find that one plan that would definitely, positively work. It was like having business OCD.

My point is, I realized that deep down, someplace subconscious, I'm afraid to fail again. I think a lot of us tend to continue to come up with more and more ideas and more and more research as a way of self sabotaging because deep down we know if we never pull the trigger, we will never have to fail again. And this allows us to use the copout of "if I could only find the right, perfect, idea" I would make it. What we are really saying is, "When I find the perfect thing that comes along with a guarantee of success, I will finally decide to take action on it". You and I both know that idea doesn't exist. No one knows with absolute certainty if their idea will make it or not, all we can do is work our hardest at putting the odds in our favor. The problem isn't that I haven't found the perfect idea yet, it's that I'm not failing fast enough! I want to fail. I need to fail faster. It's the only guaranteed way of eventually finding success.

Anyways, thanks for reading and nice to meet you all....

-R

 

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[Greg B]

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[JAJT]

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[The-J]

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