I'm saying, wood, and this is your motivational moment for this week, and we're all going to fail forward. I know I often relate back to my kids, and that's because I think my kids teach me probably a lot more than I teach them. But I am teaching both my little girls to ride their bikes at the moment, and there are crashes, there are moments of fall down, get up, dust yourself off, and get back on that bike. And yes, I'm literally teaching my kids to ride a bike.
But it is the best metaphor for life. And we know we all failed forward as kids because we were encouraged or sometimes forced to get back up, brush ourselves off, and go again. But as adults without our parents watching over, so without that same pressure or perhaps saying, oh do I really need to learn that as an adult? Does it matter? You know? The things that we tend to tell ourselves, we often don't like to fail full stop.
We try something, it doesn't work out, We go no, not for me, and we walk away from it, often forever because it's so easy in our adult life when we can sidestep things and remove ourselves from things. And there's a million different ways in our adult life without Mum or Dad telling us no, no, up, you get go again, where we can just avoid these things continuously,
and we're doing ourselves a massive disservice. I mean, the people that inspire me the most, the people that I look up to the most, not famous people, just people in my close friendship groups, are those that get themselves out of their comfort zone. They tend to absolutely achieve the most and be the most content and satisfied and happy in their life because they like to get themselves out of their comfort zone. And so we need to
do that in our adult life. I mean, it's the old saying it's better to have tried and failed than to have not tried at all. And this is something that we do daily, if not multiple times a day as kids, and yet we completely forget that advice. So we don't heed the advice that we give our own kids in our adult life. I'm sure if you look back over the last six or twelve months in your life, there would be something that jumps off the page. I
said I was going to give that a go. I probably gave it a three out of ten half assed effort once put it in the too hard basket, removed myself from it, avoided it, never went back to it, and I'm going to go back to that. I know. I can think about ten things that I've definitely done in that category. I want to learn a musical instrument, I want to do a few different things, and it's just, yeah, it hasn't happened, and it needs to happen, and I'm
going to make it happen. So I think the important part of failing forward is every time we fail forward, there's a learning that means next time we try it, we're a better version of ourselves or a closer to achieving that outcome version of ourselves. It's not that you get up, you try something, and then the next time you try it you failed just the same, and then next time you try it you're just the same, and you actually feel this point of hopelessness because you're never
getting any closer to achieving it. There will be a learning, a significant learning in many cases, every time you fail forward, and before you know it, what felt quite unachievable will really start to feel achievable. I want to empower you, I want to inspire you. I want you to have the courage to fail forward. So your listener to task for this week is to choose something new or perhaps go back to something not given the best crack out yet.
And you are going to embrace failing forward. And I want to hear from you what you embraced, what you've failed forward at over the next few weeks, and we're going to share some of those inspirational stories