Do you ever not do stuff

[big_ee69]

QUOTE (Louise @ Feb 15 2004, 10:37 AM)

i dont think i have sucseeded at anything i have done?tried to do but it still will never give up trying. i will never have regrets at trying and failing, but id regret it if i never tried it at all (if you get that )

Lou, I remember reading a post when you said you were succesfully raisng your children, holding down a job, managing two holidays per year and so on. If this is not being succesful at something I honestly don't know what is!!!

 

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[big_ee69]

I think the issue is expectation of failure. Rather than fear of failure.

 

For many years scientists, and sportsmen women and administrators believed it was simply impossible for a man to run the mile in under 4 minutes. They held that it was beyond human capacity.

 

In the year after Roger Banister, and his pacemakers Chris Chataway et all, managed it, 14 other runners did as well. What were these guy’s doing before Roger Banister? I mean they didn’t suddenly become world class runners, some of them must have been capable of achieving it before Roger Banister did.

 

The point was that none of them thought that they could, or indeed that anybody could, so they didn’t bother training, pacemaking, strategizing to do it.

 

Roger Banister was a young medical student, who thought the received wisdom was wrong, and set about achieving the goal. He was confident enough to get a crowd of people down to white city to witness the event, and to get an official timer from the book of records to record it. He set himself a concrete goal, and set about achieving it.

 

Unless you try, you will fail.

 

But if you only try, like England in the Football World Cup, you will probably fail. And if you think you will or expect to fail, again you probably will.

 

But if you are only afraid of failing, and channel that into preparation, attention to detail, hard work, so that you know you will succeed, given a degree of luck, like England in the Rugby world cup, you will succeed.

 

[Louise]

QUOTE (big_ee69 @ Feb 15 2004, 03:28 PM)

QUOTE (Louise @ Feb 15 2004, 10:37 AM) i dont think i have sucseeded at anything i have done?tried to do    but it still will never give up trying. i will never have regrets at trying and failing, but id regret it if i never tried it at all    (if you get that ) Lou, I remember reading a post when you said you were succesfully raisng your children, holding down a job, managing two holidays per year and so on. If this is not being succesful at something I honestly don't know what is!!!   ee yeah which i still am, but thats everyday stuff that we all have to do and contend with.

[djiceman]

QUOTE (Phil rr @ Feb 14 2004, 07:04 PM)

ur scared of failing?

yes.....

 

 

definately scared of failing.................