Fail Your Way to Success
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
~ Thomas J. Watson (1874-1956)
Former IBM Chairman and Master Salesman

Have you made any big errors lately? If so, congratulations--you're human! And chances are you are not a wimp, afraid to make a wrong decision that just might not work out perfectly.

You see, the people who become famous in anything are not those who do things perfectly, but those who do things well after screwing up a bunch of times. The difference between the top performers and the average, however, is that the average are often frozen by the fear of not doing something perfectly. So they don't try it, don't make the big decision, don't ask for the sale, don't take that business risk, or don't reach out to that long lost friend.

The fear of "what if" and the paralysis that it breeds can lead to harmful stagnation. Life is about movement, either up and down. If you aren't moving down from making errors or moving up from learning from them, than you aren't moving at all. And if you're not moving, the world is just passing you by. So this week, think of that big decision that is scaring the heck out of you and go for it. It might not work out perfectly, but even that less than perfect decision will be better than no decision at all.