Comments on: Want to Fail? Just Repeat These 3 Phrases Daily

By: travesti

travesti — Sat, 08 May 2010 06:38:56 +0000

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By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:45:53 +0000

“Why is it that some people, like Dr. Rubin, are willing to do just about anything to accomplish their goals, and others are willing to let adversity (or worse, apathy) push them off their course?” I've often wondered that same thing. I've always tried to be a person of discipline and diligence, but sometimes it's just tough and I want to just take life easy and sit around doing nothing to advance my goals. Very cool quote by her. Thanks for sharing.

By: ralphcarlson

ralphcarlson — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:38:50 +0000

What strikes me reading this post is that many people may not realize that they have stopped themselves by not even considering the possibility that they can achieve something higher than where they are now. You have to give yourself permission to think you can go higher before you will allow yourself to want to go higher. When you are blocked, I think you need a friend or mentor to encourage seeing the world differently.

By: ralphcarlson

ralphcarlson — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:38:50 +0000

By: Feed Your Good Dog

Feed Your Good Dog — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:02:58 +0000

One way to help yourself get to the point where failure is not an option is to feed your good dog. That's right. We all have two dogs inside us. One is a good dog and one is an evil dog. They fight all the time. The dog that wins is the one that is fed the most. Just remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!

By: Karen Sladick

Karen Sladick — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:57:34 +0000

How about “Afraid to Ask”. Some people finding asking questions to be a weakness, I find it to be a stength. People should advise from experts in their field and what I find, is these experts are always more than willing to help.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:07:08 +0000

I wanted to comment on this from a different side, that of being the advice giver or, as I prefer it, the guy you asked for advice.

Over the years, I've had a lot of friends talk about this goal or that. My favorite story involves successive dinners with an unemployed friend over a two week period where he went from wanting to be a professor to wanting to be a sea captain (no kidding, captain of the sea, his words).

He was my friend and given my love for him I gave him the best advice I had at the time. "Okay, great, how can I help."

I'm not sure he had any ideas, at least none in particular, on how to become either of those things. He would say things like "back to school" and "working on a boat" but the first step, the next step.

It dawns on me that some goals, some of these dreams, are just for fun, and aren't meant to be followed through with, and especially not motivated. Sometimes, people are just down, and they survive on fantasy of the future. This is us in our car, driving to the same job, but thinking how to spend the 13million in the lotto. This is my leaving everything behind to finally move back to Paris.

I am a fairly optimistic person, and fairly sure that I"ll make happen whatever goals I really want to happen, but there's a lot of goals, a lot of fantasies, that I think are just sort of exercise in possibility, to test, in our own minds, what fits for our life.

We should worry too much about these, and we should feel failures for not going after them. What we want, we'll go after, or else we don't want it enough. If it's a lack of resources, we'll learn about resources. I'm pretty sure that's how it goes.

Now, If you'll pardon me, I've got to spend an hour looking up medical school deadlines, plane tickets to Iceland, and tips on how to become the next best-read blogger.

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By: Paul Maurice Martin

Paul Maurice Martin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:27:51 +0000

"But, I never was sure, really sure, that it was going to work..."

What I admire here is her courage and total commitment without kidding herself that there are any guarantees in life. Too often, personal development programs essentially say "Just follow my program and there's no way you can fail." That's clearly not true. Drunk drivers, viruses, rare genetic disorders that strike people in the prime of life...

But there is one way you can't fail with that kind of courage: as a person of integrity who is at peace with themselves.

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