I'm talking about letting yourself try new things, stand up for your beliefs, and act on what you want. Give yourself the opportunity of failure by doing these things.

Failure is the seed of knowledge. It is what lets us know what NOT to do next time. It lets us do something better than before.

If we don't make mistakes or fail, how will we learn?

Why would you feel stupid? You'd never done it before...who says we are perfect? No one ever did!

Why would you be embarassed? You should applaud you for trying, not many would try, and trying is powerful in and of itself...Look at all those standing on the sidelines with longing, wishing they had the guts to try....you did...they didn't.

Why would you be scared? Anything that doesn't involve dying is not worth being scared about. Living but NOT living is such a scary and non-existant way of being. Aren't you scared to already know that NOTHING will ever happen for the rest of your life because you don't try? Trying is the lesser scary thought!

And what do you do if you FAIL??

You CHOOSE to mentally put it behind you and keep going...and eventually the odds say that you will succeed in something...anything...because you gave yourself plenty of opportunity for success to happen.

If you don't even try, if you feel scared, if you feel unsure...you aren't giving yourself enough chances to succeed.

NO ONE can succeed 100% of the time, but if they try 100% of the time, a percentage of the time they will succeed.

If they try 10% of the time, they've reduced their power so much that they've created an environment where within the 10%, they will succeed only a smaller percent of the time.

Failure needs to be the option many times so that the Successes happen!

Cheers,
Alisande