There are tons of motivational gurus out there who will tell you that “you can do it.”  Whatever it is.  (Unless it’s designing the flying car because I’ve received no support on that one whatsoever!)  There are songs about how “you can do it.”  There are books that tell you in step-by-step detail how to do it.  But I’ve found in working with lots of business professionals that there’s one thing no one wants to tell you and it’s really the key behind starting your own business.  Are you ready?  Here it is.

You are going to fail.  You are going to fail a lot.  You are going to do a lot of things wrong.  You’re going to go down the wrong path.  You’re going to regret decisions.  You’re going to learn the hard way about a lot to do with your business.  You will have setbacks.

That’s the good news.

Here’s the great news.

If you can get over your juvenile concept of having to succeed the first time you set out to do something, you will fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, until you succeed.

Natural entrepreneurs are thinking right now, “Well, duh, Debra!”   But, you see, most people don’t get it.  Most people allow the fear of failing to keep them from getting out there.  They know their spirit is calling them out, but they allow the failure aspect to keep them from showing up for their desired lives.

There really is no such thing as failure.  There are just methods that don’t work.

If you are one of the lucky ones who gets that, you can skip the rest of this article.  Everyone else needs to read on.

Do people exist who succeeded at their endeavor on the first attempt?  Sure.  Maybe it was something easy they were in pursuit of, or maybe they were tapped in to their inspired guidance.  I know that when I listen to my intuition success comes much more easily to me than when I try to force it by following someone else’s path.  That’s one reason why I’ve written so much about inspired action.

But often, we throw inspiration by the wayside when we take action on an inspired thought and then fail to see the success in it.  Often, we fail to realize that the “failure” was a lesson in disguise, ultimately getting us closer to our goal.  Start thinking of inspired action as Divine Wisdom.  People who get this concept seem to flow through life more easily as well.

My ex-mother-in-law was a woman who got this concept very well.  She installed new carpeting in her living room and hallway.  You know how difficult it is to choose carpet colors from a sample; you can’t know exactly what it’s going to look like on the floor.  So after it was installed, she hated it.  She prayed for God to do something about it because she knew it was out of her hands.  She was rather playful about the whole thing, but low and behold, just a couple of weeks later, the stove in the living room caught on fire and while it caused no damage to any part of the house or the furniture, it did make enough of a mess on the new carpet that the insurance company agreed to replace the newly laid carpet!  She was ecstatic!  “An answer to prayer,” she exclaimed.

It was the law of attraction in action if you ask me!  (Which, of course, includes God.)

What was perceived as a failure was turned around by turning the situation over to a higher power.  What’s more is that she admitted to not having followed her instincts in making the purchase in the first place.  And the point is not that we should beat ourselves up when we know we made a bad decision, the point is to turn it around.  If you don’t know the right decision to make or are thinking, “how in the world am I going to get out of this one,” remember this little story, and turn it over to your higher self.  The universe has all the answers, you just need to listen.

Learn to fail, and you’ll become a success.  (And by the way - you CAN do it!)

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