Success Tip | Learn To Love Failure

When I was playing pro baseball and early on in my business career, I was really defined by three things. Fear of comparison, fear of judgment, fear of failure. You know, you're in pro baseball, you're compared to your teammates every single day, literally via stats. You fear that judgment of the scouts because you're getting judged every day whether you're going to get promoted or demoted. And as a free agent, I feared failure, right? If I show up or go out on the mound and I fail, that on a given night, I could be released, I could be let go. That really impacted the first 10 years of my career in business as well, in the insurance field. I just absolutely, absolutely feared comparison. The fear, the judgment of everybody, what they're saying about me, the opinions of others, and most importantly, I was fear of failure. Every loss, every opportunity I didn't get, I was devastated by. And I tell you, if there's one transformation I have made the most that has completely taken my career to levels I couldn't have imagined, it's getting over that. It's not caring what others think about me. It's not comparing myself to anybody else, just focusing on who I am and loving failure.