Richard Canfield uses one question to filter opportunities: does this align with my gifts and how I want to show up? He argues failure proves you're taking bold action, and reframing setbacks as learning shapes how you grow.
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I've learned how to really lean into what do I want to contribute to the world and use that lens on everything. So is there an opportunity and is it alignment with my gifts, my strengths, and how I want to show up in the world? Yes. No. If the answer is no, it's off the table and don't even consider it further. And so, you know, if you're looking at this and you're looking at failure and you're afraid of failure, you're doing it wrong. We cannot move forward if we don't have fails. If we're not failing, we're not showing up big enough in the world. And so, like, my fails are big. They're pretty epic. We could go on for days talking about the failures I've had in businesses, but the reality is, every time I have to look at it from. From a what is this? Why is this happening for me Lens, and how does it fit and how do I want to show up moving forward? It's, who am I becoming and how am I going to get there? So that's kind of the lens I look, and it's the lens that when I coach clients that we take as well. In fact, we just talked about this on Monday as we start to set our strategy for 2025.