How To Never Fail...

Want to guarantee that you never fail at anything?

There is a sure-fire formula for never experiencing the pain of failure.

That is to attempt nothing new. It is pretty simple, 100 percent sure. But pretty useless. I've noticed young kids that won't try things till they are reasonably assured of perfection. That is a kid thing. But we should outgrow it as adults.

Too often I meet leaders who press forward with lots of "reasons" why something won't work in their situation. I suspect that they are really hiding behind a fear of failure.

Fear is ugly and is the opposite of faith. Seems a better approach is to build a culture that is friendly to failure. Friendly in that it rewards people for "trying something." When we reward people for trying we will see a lot more home runs, but strikeouts come along with home runs. So The best way to never fail in the long run seems to be to allow for lots of short term failures along the way toward long term sucesses.