Since the very day we started our school training in our tender days, we were tought to consider failure as something to be, by all means avoided. When I failed in my kindergarden years, my teacher would kindly send a report to my parents letting them know about my ugly failures.

How typical it is to witness a parent giving a tough time to her child because she had this “stupid” idea and went beyond the family status quo and did something crazy as dismantling a clock because she was curious about it.

Could you imagine what would have happened if Christopher Colombus had quit in pursuing his dreams? What if he had just aborted his goal and had stopped cherishing his most precious dreams?

As far as I remember I hadn´t seen one sinlge toddler leaving her process to learn walking after some stumbles and falls. Can you imagine a toddler thinking- “Oh, no, I have falled three times today. This thing of walking is not meant for me”.

So then why we tend to give up in our pursuit of reaching our goals and conquering our dreams? The answer is that we were trained to be terrified to fail and feel embarrased about it. Our own ego and expectations are part of these bunch of “bad guys” holding us to triumph and repeating time after time in our hearts and souls- “You see, I told you. You will never be strong, intelligent or brave enough to be successful”.

Getting beyond the difficult challenges will require persistence and diligence, and not listening to those “bad guys” hammering our deepest self love and pride.

Hey! You were born to be successful. Go for it! Consider failures as part of the process in your path to reach that awesome life you were sent to have.

You can count me as your friend to help you shift from that conditioning “you-must-not-fail” to the most healthy one “failure-is-part-of-your-success”.

Kisses and Blessings,

Jamie Velasco

Twitter: @EMPOWERurPOWER