I Fail on a Different Scale
I’ve always been amazed how people tend to just shoot for the minimal they need to have to be successful. I watched many people shoot for a very low bar and fail at it. It is sad, because they just don’t understand that everything fails. We are people, we are big screw-ups. We fail at everything to some degree. So if you shoot for the minimum you need to succeed then you will not make it there.
The unobtainable is always the plan. How does this set me above the others we just discussed? I fail on a different scale.
What do I do? I shoot for Perfection. If I need to make $1 a day, I shoot for $1,000,000 a day. I shoot for goals that cannot be hit. The unobtainable is always the plan. How does this set me above the others we just discussed? I fail on a different scale. Let’s keep running with the money example, if I need $1 a day, but shot for $1,000,000 and failed like all people do, but get $1,000, it is a miserable failure when you look at what was being shot at. If you look at what I needed though which was $1 shooting for $1,000,000 made me get 1,000 times my need.
See If you shoot for $1, it’ll be just as hard as shooting for $1,000,000 in our example. You have to think about the same amount. You have to come up with the same amount of ideas. You have to implement the same amount of money generating things. You simply make different decisions that allow for failure to still reach what you absolutely need.
Stop looking small, shoot of the largest thing you can think of. Don’t just make a game, make a hit. Realize that you are going to mess up everything, that is a fact. If you give yourself room for that failure, you will be surprised what success comes from it. It’s a mindset change. Don’t change the amount of effort you put in, change the scale by which you try.
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