One of the many reasons we fail is because of the weird assumption, ‘What if I fail even before we try?’ We label ourselves failures before taking a step. What if the Wright Brothers had not taken a step further? What if Neil Armstrong hadn’t been the first to go to the moon? What if Thomas Edison did not try the ten-thousandth time for humanity to witness the electricity light bulb? What if Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t push further for equality? What if Mahatma Gandhi felt he was the odd one of many to push for a peace protest? What if this? What if that? Do you know the magnitude of the effect it would have had on mankind today if they hadn’t taken a step further?
You cannot know the effect of something until it is carried out or abandoned. You are not a failure for trying but you are a failure for not trying at all. What if I try but I fail? At least it will be recorded in history that I tried.
So many people have been held back because they say to themselves, ‘What if I fail?’ And what if you truly fail? What will happen? People will laugh…what else? But if you succeed, they will fight just to be your friend. My opinion here is even if you fail, history will have it that you tried, tried, and tried again. But truly, what if you succeed?
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