FOCUS: Fail! (v3n3)
Selected Life Lesson
With children who are almost adults – learn when to give advice and when to step back and let them live their own lives – even if it means they’ll make painful mistakes.
-Susan M’s life lesson from Kansas City, Missouri
Richard’s Thoughts…
This week’s lesson comes from Susan, a woman from a group I spoke with last month here in Kansas City. She actually won a free copy of my book. After last week’s lesson, she sent me an email with this lesson – and I thought – especially with graduation, it was the perfect lesson.
I know it’s cliche, but if you lead a man to water and teach him to fish, you feed him for life. It’s the same with children and young adults. Shoot – it’s the same for adults! We have to be allowed to make mistakes and fall on our face! We learn from our failures. We get better.
This week I have two take-aways. First, let the people around you experience life. Don’t protect your friends or colleagues. And for you, go out into the world and be willing to fail – to make mistakes. Trust me, failure is awesome! Amazing things can happen!
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