Your Private Failure
Published: Sat, 08/22/15
I want you to imagine the most confident
person you know.
Maybe their confidence shows up in a strong,
loud authoritative personality.
Or maybe in something calm and quiet,
that inspires trust.
Or maybe they're willing to show their body
in ways most others wouldn't. They have
muscles, or flat abs, or the kind of face people
write songs about.
Each of those people fails...almost everyday.
Sometimes you know about it...because they
document the journey.
But more often you don't. They keep it private.
I've developed a friendship with someone on
Instagram. A stunningly beautiful woman.
Someone the younger, less confident version of
myself would never consider communicating with.
So when I posted a clip from a video I did about
failure, it was surprising when she thanked me
in the comments.
She "outed herself" as someone who was struggling
and needed to hear that message.
If you're reading this, you're almost definitely
striving for success. Business or career, weight
loss, more muscle, etc.
And if you're like every other human being in the
world, you try stuff and it doesn't work.
You get frustrated and start to lose confidence
in yourself.
And if you're like most, you let that failure
define you.
You worry you don't have what it takes.
You worry about looking silly in public,
and to your friends and family.
You worry about losing money, if that's
part of the equation.
It only took a 15 second video clip to
help my friend get back on the right path.
That's because she's achieved lots of
good things.
And she achieved those things because
she was willing to fail.
And see that failure as a challenge to
the boundaries she had accepted.
And push past them.
Same thing is true for that confident
person I asked you to imagine at the
start of this note.
The only difference between them and
you that journey...and how far they've
walked it.
The folks in Mind Intensive are gaining
followers. And making money.
And fixing broken relationships, and
sometimes moving out of them when
they're not worth trying to fix.
Some of them will turbocharge the
process when Fall Intensive rolls around.
And many more have already used
HOW TO RECEIVE to get the language,
the habits, the skills and the self-respect
to take the journey.
You will fail. Sometimes in private,
sometimes in public.
And you will embrace that failure.
Because that's what the confident
people do.
Much Love,
Larry