I want to start this week with a question.
Are you a success because you achieved an outcome in your imagination, but not in reality?
I know a lot of us have dreams in our minds.
And if we were to suggest to ourselves or others we have achieved success in it, we would sound delusional, right?
If you see me walking down the street, nude but totally believing that I am dressed in Hugo Boss clothes, swinging my imagined Ferrari keys around and telling everyone I am the most desirable man on earth.
You may feel really sorry for me and think I had mental health issues.
Think I am on some MAD drugs
Call the police because I could be dangerous.
Or
Put a video on social media and let the world see the insanity.
But you would still think I am delusional or insane.
Then…
Why is it we think we are a failure if we have never succeeded to start with?
Why do we label things failures, that have never seen the tangible, real measure of success.
Hmmm…
Was Roger Bannister a failure before he ran the 4-minute mile?
Is the human race a failure because we are not interplanetary yet?
Of course not.
Seems like an insane question to ask, right?
Why?
Because Roger hadn’t done it yet.
And
We are not interplanetary yet.
If you were to jump out of an airplane,
And on the way down pulled your chute.
It opens up perfectly, you descend and land on the ground safely.
It was a successful jump due to the fact that the chute did what it was tested, designed and proven to do.
If you were to jump out of an airplane,
And on the way down, the primary chute didn’t open,
But your secondary did,
This primary chute would have been classed as a failure.
As it didn’t deploy as designed, tested and proven to do so.
We know that to achieve it, to make it tangible and real is the metric we measure to be successful.
Then failure also must be a metric and measure of what’s already attained, not by others, not by comparison, but by ourselves. Then, when we no longer met the measure, we could choose to define it as a failure.
I am going to say something bold…
We have to do it, have done it, or had it before we can fail it.
Failure is impossible without first achieving success.
A car can not break down and have a failure if it first didn’t run.
Our heart can not fail, if it first didn’t beat.
Arbitrary imagined failure is just that. An imagination based on personally set expectations that didn’t account for all variables to achieve an outcome that we think would be success.
It’s not a real failure,
It’s just feedback to the gap.
Until next week,
Keep smashing growth ceilings,
Justin Wiseman
www.maximumgrowth.co
Entrepreneur and Business Owner
Mindset Business Mindset Coach
Demartini Method Facilitator
