"Never Let The Fear Of Striking Out Get In Your Way" - Babe Ruth

If You're Not Failing You're Not Growing

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way" (Babe Ruth, strike out king, home run king).

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. We all make mistakes - especially those who do things. Failure is often the first necessary step toward success.

Stop trying to be perfect. When you have a serious decision to make, tell yourself firmly that you are going to make it. Don't expect that it will be the perfect one. The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy; the pursuit of perfection is frustrating, unproductive and a terrible waste of time.

The fact is that you're like a tea bag. You won't know your own strength until you get into some hot water. Failure is something we can only avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing.

"Remember there are two benefits to failure. First if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you an opportunity to try a new approach" (Roger Van Oech). Some people learn from their mistakes; some never recover from them. Learn how to fail intelligently. Develop success from failure.

Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. No other elements can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and to make the most out of them. Your season of failure is the best time for sowing your seeds of success. Successful people are not afraid to fail. They go from failure to failure until at last success is theirs.

The best way to accelerate your success is to double your failure rate. The law of failure is one of the most powerful of all success laws.

- John Mason, from the book Let Go of Whatever Makes You Stop (Want to purchase this book? Go to www.freshword.com/resources)