Act as if you can’t do “it” wrong

Where “it” stands for whatever you’ve decided to do.

This is my new favourite piece of mindset advice. It comes courtesy of the impressively enthusiastic and endlessly inspiring Marie Forleo.

And it’s kind of perfect.

I mean, if you consider that it’s usually your fear of failure, not your actual failure, that gets in the way of doing great things. Then deciding there’s no such thing as failure quite neatly takes care of that.

You basically pre-accept whatever the outcome is. You decide, in advance, to chalk it up to experience and that gaining experience is all you’re trying to do.

Which works because it’s the only thing that’s guaranteed to happen every time.

Obviously, this doesn’t mean being reckless with your resources. It doesn’t mean putting yourself or your family (or anyone) in harm’s way.

But it does mean you can take emotional risks, confident you’ll get the outcome you want (experience). Confident you won’t do it wrong… because you can’t, because there’s no such thing.

Now that I think about it, it’s kind of how I’ve approached this newsletter. I just hadn’t noticed or had a neat little phrase to sum it up before.

And now I do. And so do you 🙂

Wrong-less,
James