This is optimal. Living daily episode, two thousand and eighty five success requires failure, so just start by Jay, Harrington of Life and win dot com, and I'm just a moloch. Welcome back to optimal living daily or the old podcast are welcome for the first time if you're new here this is where I read to you from some of the best flowers I can find and get permission from mostly covering personal development and minimalism on this show. A real, quick thanks to anchor for hosting this podcast anchor is the easiest way to make a podcast. They'll distribute your podcast for you, so it can be heard everywhere: Spotify Apple, podcast, Google, podcast and many more. You can easily make money from your podcast to with no minimum listenership. Anger gives you everything you need in one place for free. Would you can use right from your phone or computer creation tools? Allow you to record in

your podcast, so it sounds great download the anchor up or go to anchor dot fm to get started now, get right to it. Man sort optimizing your life success requires failure. So just start, by J, Harrington of Life and whim dark thinking. the last time you were at the beach and gazed out to the point where the lake or see meets the sky. The horizon Often the distance seems reachable, but he jump, on a board and start paddling out. The rise in appears just as far off no matter how far you travel. The same is true of the progress we make in life. We move closer to our goals. But each new stage we reach becomes a new normal that we accept. and our goals accordingly, We create a new mental cause shrugged about what success looks like satisfaction in contaminants.

seem out of reach like the horizon, we're moving ahead, but it doesn't feel thy way in moments This be it on a board on the lake or in pursuit of personal goals. The only way to appreciate how far you ve come. If you look back not forward, so while the new year is a time to look ahead, is also important to look back to learn the lessons of the journey that lead you to this point over the break with sometime evaluating the previous twelve months. Man here We found in twenty seven Heather, and I failed more than we ever have during a twelve month period. We made assumptions that were unfounded. We ran campaigns that didn't work, which he leaves that in pan out, we spend time that was not productive. We did all kinds of things that didn't work last year. At the same time, twenty seventeen we succeeded beyond our expectations. We got our new business off the ground. We created laws of products,

that were proud of. We hosted events that gay people real joy and in the process developed many amazing relationships. We spurious lots of fun adventurers as a family. We made progress personally, man professionally. here's the most important lesson. We learn from all of these experiences. The good things didn't happen. Despite the bad ones, they happened because of them. Put another way? Twenty seventeen was a reminder that the only way to succeed is to fail quote I've missed more than nine thousand shots in my career of lost. Almost three hundred games, a failed over and over again in my life tat, is why Succeed, Michael Jordan, no matter what you're trying to achieve in life. Developing a tolerance for failure is important for two principal reasons. First, if you fail, it means you tried, you can't win

without try duly way. Michael Jordan made lots of shots is because he took laws of shots and missed significant percentage of them. Second, failing provides important feedback that the applied when you try again and win. Success is a by product of failure. The key to failing is not a failed to big or too small. if you push Oliver of in and go beg, you ve got nothing to fall back on if you lose for most of us, because a financial responsibilities and families best not an On the other hand, if you play small ball, you'll never tap into the important lessons. in only be learned when you stretch beyond your comfort zone quote only the Those who dare to fail greatly can never achieve greyly. Robert F Kennedy in this sense. failing is a skill to be trained and refined and, as with any skill, practice makes perfect

selling authors of Godin has said quote. I think is fair to say that I have failed more than most people. Madame super proud of that one rules of this game. Is the person who fails most wins and quote there's one additional Thing to keep in mind about failure failed toward a single goal, the many of us run into when we're trying to achieve something. Is that when we fail, we stop and move on to the next thing we think we reach the end dinner out of options. So we bows, but if you bounds, then you don't get the benefit of the learning process. Instead, stay focused on a single goal and understand that the path to succeed is not linear tree. Each failure on the way to achieving the goal as unnecessary stepping stone in the journey stay focused keep moving quote. Failure is the opportunity

to begin again, only more intelligently, Henry Ford. So here's a simple suggestion when it comes to pursuing what you want just start: a failure as a prerequisite to success. What's stopping you when it comes to making a decision or making progress on a new initiative, I've learned that I can, ha research and red pondering probe. All I want it doesn't matter. You just leave me back to the same point. Regardless of any other thing, I decide to do, which is almost always a thinly disguised form of procrastination. I just need to start starting brings with it a risk of failure, but that Ok, because failure or not starting is essential first step towards success. you just listen to the post, titled success requires failure. So just start.

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my friend and I launching a website for musicians to sell their mp3s cds shirts stickers. Anything they wanted to sell and worked well. All but needed a lot more marketing and awareness to become sustainable, seek with that into the failure. Category also lesson learned, though, that about years ago, my current business partner and I started an app business man, with one up, but where we Are you getting low on money, which again was due to lots of lessons learned my learned? How to code myself and that made us proof near the end. We had over one hundred apps, all monetizing in I'm fashion, but we learned it just wasn't fulfilling especially the types of ass we were building, but in that process my business partner was interviewed on a pod cast, I discovered podcasting and while we were somewhat six

for financially we weren't fulfilled, and we talked a lot about things I read to you on the show, like personal development, minimalism mindfulness happiness, all that stuff and combining Oliver years of failures and lessons learned. The idea of this podcast was born. Even this podcast has had its fair share of ups and downs, but I've been able to stick with it. Thanks to the emails I get from you saying how to change your life. From all the support makes me want to keep going even when there are struggles and growing pains along the way. So thank you for the support and for those emails If you haven't written in but want to say, hi is always great hearing from you. You can get in touch at old, podcast, dot com, written reply to my freely we newsletter, I read every email. I thank you for listening three day. It means a lot have a great rest of your day and we back tomorrow, reading to you where your optimal life awaits.