Speaker 1: I'm saying, wood, and this is your motivational moment for
Speaker 1: this week, and we're all going to fail forward. I
Speaker 1: know I often relate back to my kids, and that's
Speaker 1: because I think my kids teach me probably a lot
Speaker 1: more than I teach them. But I am teaching both
Speaker 1: my little girls to ride their bikes at the moment,
Speaker 1: and there are crashes, there are moments of fall down,
Speaker 1: get up, dust yourself off, and get back on that bike.
Speaker 1: And yes, I'm literally teaching my kids to ride a bike.
Speaker 1: But it is the best metaphor for life. And we
Speaker 1: know we all failed forward as kids because we were
Speaker 1: encouraged or sometimes forced to get back up, brush ourselves off,
Speaker 1: and go again. But as adults without our parents watching over,
Speaker 1: so without that same pressure or perhaps saying, oh do
Speaker 1: I really need to learn that as an adult? Does
Speaker 1: it matter? You know? The things that we tend to
Speaker 1: tell ourselves, we often don't like to fail full stop.
Speaker 1: We try something, it doesn't work out, We go no,
Speaker 1: not for me, and we walk away from it, often
Speaker 1: forever because it's so easy in our adult life when
Speaker 1: we can sidestep things and remove ourselves from things. And
Speaker 1: there's a million different ways in our adult life without
Speaker 1: Mum or Dad telling us no, no, up, you get
Speaker 1: go again, where we can just avoid these things continuously,
Speaker 1: and we're doing ourselves a massive disservice. I mean, the
Speaker 1: people that inspire me the most, the people that I
Speaker 1: look up to the most, not famous people, just people
Speaker 1: in my close friendship groups, are those that get themselves
Speaker 1: out of their comfort zone. They tend to absolutely achieve
Speaker 1: the most and be the most content and satisfied and
Speaker 1: happy in their life because they like to get themselves
Speaker 1: out of their comfort zone. And so we need to
Speaker 1: do that in our adult life. I mean, it's the
Speaker 1: old saying it's better to have tried and failed than
Speaker 1: to have not tried at all. And this is something
Speaker 1: that we do daily, if not multiple times a day
Speaker 1: as kids, and yet we completely forget that advice. So
Speaker 1: we don't heed the advice that we give our own
Speaker 1: kids in our adult life. I'm sure if you look
Speaker 1: back over the last six or twelve months in your life,
Speaker 1: there would be something that jumps off the page. I
Speaker 1: said I was going to give that a go. I
Speaker 1: probably gave it a three out of ten half assed
Speaker 1: effort once put it in the too hard basket, removed
Speaker 1: myself from it, avoided it, never went back to it,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to go back to that. I know.
Speaker 1: I can think about ten things that I've definitely done
Speaker 1: in that category. I want to learn a musical instrument,
Speaker 1: I want to do a few different things, and it's just, yeah,
Speaker 1: it hasn't happened, and it needs to happen, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to make it happen. So I think the important
Speaker 1: part of failing forward is every time we fail forward,
Speaker 1: there's a learning that means next time we try it,
Speaker 1: we're a better version of ourselves or a closer to
Speaker 1: achieving that outcome version of ourselves. It's not that you
Speaker 1: get up, you try something, and then the next time
Speaker 1: you try it you failed just the same, and then
Speaker 1: next time you try it you're just the same, and
Speaker 1: you actually feel this point of hopelessness because you're never
Speaker 1: getting any closer to achieving it. There will be a learning,
Speaker 1: a significant learning in many cases, every time you fail forward,
Speaker 1: and before you know it, what felt quite unachievable will
Speaker 1: really start to feel achievable. I want to empower you,
Speaker 1: I want to inspire you. I want you to have
Speaker 1: the courage to fail forward. So your listener to task
Speaker 1: for this week is to choose something new or perhaps
Speaker 1: go back to something not given the best crack out yet.
Speaker 1: And you are going to embrace failing forward. And I
Speaker 1: want to hear from you what you embraced, what you've
Speaker 1: failed forward at over the next few weeks, and we're
Speaker 1: going to share some of those inspirational stories