The failure, the fear, and the favourite

Hi world,

So while looking through Twitter this morning, @Addictd2Success tweeted this picture:

and, once one gets over the Yoda-like feel of it, there is a certain truth to it. Aren't we all, as entrepreneurs, afraid not to try? Yet how does one get over the fear of failure? When the stakes seem so high that you might lose everything, how do you let go?

Imagine yourself as a kid who has just dropped out of high school and how ridiculous your failure must seem. Everyone gets through high school, for goodness' sake. Well, everyone but our favourite billionaire Sir Richard Branson.

It's always turned back to perspective. Yes, you may lose your shirt, and yes, it may be uncomfortable, but if you stick with it and you learn from what you did wrong, you can do far worse things than fail. You can, as they said, not try.

So go out there, world, and conquer your fears. And when you have, let us know – what was your worst fear and how did you overcome it?

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-SWW

(Here's a start. One of us at SWW used to have a terrible fear of losing luggage or missing a flight. After an unfortunate delay, a lost watch, and what wound up being a very long night waiting for a cancellation on the next flight, and the one after that... and the one after that, we finally got to our destination, having made sure in advance that our luggage would be on our plane and was absolutely assured that it was. It wasn't.

You buy some, you borrow some, you make do. Hotels have complimentary soaps and airlines will deliver lost luggage, so if the worst comes to the worst and you wind up taking a long, hot shower and walking around in yesterday's clothes, well, what's travel without a little adventure and spice thrown in? It's a great story now, despite how utterly terrifying and life-changing it seemed at the time. What's your story?)