Good Monday Morning World!!! Was that quake the world shaking in fear, or shivering in anticipation?

Hope and Fear is are good topics for today, especially where it applies to business.

Many I’ve met through my years, are now or have been successful: and some are now or have been trying to succeed: and some are now and will always be resigned to their failure. That is not to say that those, probably the majority of people, who have found a comfortable niche that sustains them now and will grow with them, are failures. Far from it. They are probably happy in their comfort, even content, and less fearful. But is sustainability growth?  Or the fear of growth?

In business there are always risks. Those who succeed do so because of the “Hope Of Gain” not the “Fear Of Loss”. You’ve all seen the proverb that says something like, “the successful have failed more times than you have tried”. For this to be true, they have accepted that failure part of the process, even view failure as no more than a sign post along the path to success. Kind of like a Detour Sign around the rough patches where you might have suffered complete and catastrophic failure.

Focus on the “Fear Of Loss” and you will spend so much time preventing the inevitable failure by mistaking it as loss, that you will never recognize your successes. A narrow path fraught with peril. You will now and  always will be resigned to Fail.

Focus on the  “Hope Of Gain”.  I will not define it for you. It is too nebulous a concept, and changes with the person.  

Hope or Fear. Have Faith or lose Faith - in You.

Have a Great Week.