Do you know what feels worse than failing?
Feeling guilty about it.
It happens when you try to wake up earlier, and oversleep once.
It happens when you launch a business, and don’t make any money for weeks.
It happens when you try to eat healthier, and end up at a Mc Donalds 3 days later.
Of course, you break your own deal between you and yourself.
You fail.
But everyone fails at some point.
It’s fine, it happens.
It doesn’t have to kill your whole effort.
It doesn’t have to make you quit.
And this is what happens when you feel guilty about it.
Because you failed once, you lose your momentum, your self confidence and you lose this trust in yourself that “yes, you can change and become a better version of yourself.”
This is when failing goes wrong.
Because you accept to feel guilty about it.
But what if you allowed yourself to be wrong?
You oversleep? Fine, oversleep, and enjoy those extra hours.
You fuck up a deal? Fine, look back and understand what you could do next time to close it.
You ate a triple cheeseburger? Fine, at least enjoy it, and understand why you craved for it.
The real damages happen when you feel guilty and blame yourself for doing something wrong.
And this is what will probably led you to permanently give up on this goal that actually mattered a lot to you.
You may also end up convincing yourself that you’re not a morning person, that you should probably find a job as your dad said, or that you don’t really want to be fit anyway.
All because you didn’t allow yourself to be wrong.
Keep it in mind:
“You’re not in the business of being right all the time.
You’re in the business of doing 1% better every day.”
Thomas