Failing happens... failing to do your best is on you...

We all fail sometimes. People fail around us every day. You lose a client, screw up with technology, miss goals and more. It happens, it happens to all of us and it is ok.

Failure is not even something that we can prevent. It will happen to all of us many times throughout our lives. We have to learn to accept that we cannot always succeed. I guess you can stack the odds in your favor by setting goals so low that you cannot possibly fasil to hit them, by accepting such a low performance level from yourself that you hit it by showing up or by not having any goals at all so you can't miss them. Bu the reality is we all fail sometimes.

I don't know about you but I hate failing... success feels so much better (and pays better as well). But I can say a few positive things about failure in my life...

• I have definitely learned more from failure than success
• Failure motivates me to do even better in the future and that determination has helped me throughout my career
• I have learned by watching other people fail... it has shown me mistakes to avoid
• Failure has drawn my attention to systems, technology and skills that I needed to improve

So failure is a part of life that we all must deal with. But there is one key thing that we can control, a thing that will kill your career if you allow it to. It is not ok to fail because you did not give your best.

Have you ever had a deal die because of poor communication? Did you ever lose a deal because you were on vacation and missed an email? What else have you done to lose a deal where you know you did not do your best?

If you always give it your best you will never have to feel bad if you fail. You can look people in the eye and say you gave it all you had. If you always give it your best you will succeed most of the time.

So fail... just fail giving it all you had and you will succeed.