CHOOSING GREATNESS: The VALUE of FAILURE...
Is FAILING Really an Important Part of the GREATNESS PROCESS?
FAILURE…or GREATNESS?
Can you have one without the other? Greatness without FAILURE?
What is Failure really? And what is the real VALUE in it for BECOMING GREAT?
It’s an interesting study with many opinions—Many view FAILING as a bad thing. Some have a different take when it pertains to LEARNING and GROWING and LEADING doing something REMARKABLE.
I guess I’m in the latter category.
FAILURE… Someone once said is the road to IMPROVING and LEARNING.
In my book Becoming Uncommon I wrote about this as it relates to one of the things we’ve all heard for much of our lives…
“Anything WORTH DOING is…WORTH DOING WELL.”
And again, I get what they’re trying to say, the problem is HOW do you get to the point where you CAN DO IT WELL?
I’ve always been a proponent of THIS PRINCIPLE…
“Anything WORTH DOING is WORTH DOING POORLY—UNTIL you can do it WELL!” Just don’t take too long to get there. And it certainly depends on WHAT the GOAL is.
If you’re a musician, I already know you didn’t do it WELL in the beginning.
Doing it POORLY is about LEARNING to do it BETTER on the way to BECOMING GREAT—at anything. It’s the PROCESS of BECOMING whatever it is you wish to be.
Shakespeare once wrote, “When the sea was CALM all ships alike showed MASTERY in floating.”
I LOVE that phrase. Because what it really means is that when things are going well or OK or easy…ANYONE can look good doing it.
But when the STORMS RAGE and the CHALLENGES COME it doesn’t take too long to identify the REAL CAPTAINS! Captains of boats or Captains of ENTERPRISE.
So don’t be afraid of doing something you want to go after POORLY, on the road to MASTERING it. On the way to GREATNESS…
I have friends who are Doctors, and Pilots and Coaches and Players and they ALL started out doing that THING…poorly. But they kept at it, because it MATTERED to them.
Because GREATNESS wasn’t at the BEGINNING, it was first CHOOSING to become GREAT and along the way discovering that FAILURE was a part of the process.
Individuals have very PERSONAL reasons why they want to succeed at whatever their THING is. So be BRAVE!
Brave enough to FAIL— at something NEW that matters to YOU!
Have a great weekend,
Michael
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Michael York is an accomplished AUTHOR and SPEAKER...as well as the Co-Founder and Host of CETV. And his latest project Michael York’s CETV NOW!
In 2022 He was named “Most Unique Leadership Coach” by Corporate Vision International, and in 2023 was awarded the “Transformation Coach of the Year” by Wealth and Finance magazine, and in 2024 “Leadership Coach of the Year” by Global Business Insight magazine.
And just this year in 2025, named “MOST INSPIRATIONAL BUSINESS COACH” by Acquisition International Magazine.
He is an award-winning CONSULTANT and COACH retained by ORGANIZATIONS for his contribution to the improvement of HUMAN POTENTIAL, PERSONALLY as well as PROFESSIONALLY.
He is the RADICAL IMPROVEMENT CATALYST behind major advancements with his clients over two decades and the EVIDENCE of his EXPERTISE is confirmed by empirical RESULTS, some of which can be seen at www.MichaelYork.com