You will be surprised to know that a lot of people have lost more things by not trying than they would have even lost by trying and failing. The cost of playing safe is too much that it far outweighs the cost of taking a risk. The success you are looking for may just be hiding in the attempts that you are scared of making. A lot of people fear failure than they fear the dangers of not trying at all, which carries a far bigger risk. You might imagine the worst possible outcome of the step that you want to take - like failure, embarrassment, disappointment, criticism, feeling of not good enough, etc. However, the worst outcome is not that you tried and it did not work, but that you did not try at all.
Any great achievement that you see today started with a simple decision to try. A lot of the good things of life, including success, are mostly gotten when you dare to step out of your comfort zone. You will be surprised to know that the breakthrough that you are looking for may just be in the place you fear, or in the action that you are scared to take. When you are trying, you have to remove the mentality of "what if" - like what if the step fails, what if people laugh, what if it hits a dead-end, etc? Okay but have you asked yourself "what if I succeed at this step?" Instead of imagining negativity about the step that you want to take, rather focus on the positive outcome. Trust me, a lot of what people are scared of are just based on imaginations that never happened.
There are unimaginable possibilities that lie in the step that you want to take, but you will not know if you refuse to take the step. If you do not try, you have just confined yourself to the place you have always been. You cannot make progress until you take a step. There are discoveries you cannot make, heights you cannot attain, the level of growth you may not get to, and the breakthrough you may not hit until you have taken a step from where you are. There is a pride that you derive from knowing that you have tried your best even if it did not work according to how you have planned it. That you have tried and it did not work is not the real failure, but the lack of courage to try.
You may argue that trying does not guarantee success. But at least, it guarantees experience, wisdom, growth, and enlightenment. When you put these experiences into practice in your next attempt, you will discover that it will be better. However, by not trying at all, you have already overridden the possibility of success. The people who have achieved greatness are not necessarily the people who never failed at any point in their lives, but those who have refused to allow the failure create their future. That is, those who have embraced uncertainties and have taken risks even in the midst of them. The people who you see as successful may have long trails of multiple trials and errors.
In order to take risks, you have to break free from self-limitation. Also condition your mind to always look at the positive side of life. Instead of focusing on what may go wrong from the step that you are about to take, it will be better to focus on the possibilities that you will witness by taking that step. Do not get worried about perfection, just allow yourself to begin. Even the masters and the experts of today were once amateurs. By taking the steps, working on yourself, and improving, you will have better results. You cannot gain the required experience by not trying at all.
Life will always reward the people who are brave. For every step that you take, even the steps that you are uncertain about, you tend to expand your world. It also makes you to grow better, become more resilient, and better believe in yourself. Do not wait until when you can take the incredibly big step, start with the small steps from where you are, and you will see yourself taking giant strides shortly.
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