How to Succeed...

Fail.

Repeatedly.

Make 10,000 small failures a key goal. Not because you want to fail, but because to fail 10,000 times means you've tried 10,000 times, at least. With a willingness to learn from failure, those 10,000 times would have taught you something: How to fail reliably. By a process of elimination you would learn which actions and factors make failure less likely.

Many people see a lack of failure as a badge of pride. Many people are wrong!

A lack of failure is a badge of not having had the ambition to try, the willingness to work and the determination to overcome defeat in pursuit of excellence.

You may see Kobe Bryant or David Beckham on TV, scoring almost effortlessly from a distance. Yet what you don't see is the practice that went into building their abilities. Try to score. Fail. Try to score. Fail. Try again, fail. And so on, for hours. Practicing for years, failing often.

It's that repeated failure that forms the bedrock of their success.

How easily we forget how we learned to walk, talk, read and write. Our success did not come instantly. Instead we began each task as untalented failures, and failure after failure followed. Whilst you have long since forgotten those failures, their legacy is the very thing that ensures you can read this blog entry!

Worthy goals are so high and so difficult that we cannot help but fail repeatedly in our attempts to realize them. Each failure takes us closer to success, as long as we learn from our mistakes.
I wish you much success. So, I wish you much failure!