Increased Failure = Increased Success

A quick note today.  I am constantly reminded in books and audio and in speaking with friends that most people fail before they succeed.  You might even consider it a cycle.  Failure is necessary with exercise or nutrition or business or personal development or any valuable aspect of your life.  When you fail, fail forward as you have probably heard.  Failure means we are pushing the limits.  In weight lifting, you lift to failure.  That last rep you crank out when you don't think you can do another is where all the gain comes from.  It's where the muscles are pushed to go beyond where they have been before.  The capillaries/muscle fibers expand and rupture and then your body repairs itself creating more lean muscle mass.  That new muscle is most responsible for calorie burning and allows you to push your limits even further.
You can apply the same concept to business.  If you are out on a limb pushing your limits, you will come against roadblocks or challenges that seem insurmountable.  Do you give up?  Of coarse not.  You push that limit sometimes failing, but you assess the situation and learn from it, hopefully not repeating it and move forward.  Thomas Edison is a perfect example.  He attempted hundreds of time to repeatedly produce light by combining electricity with different combinations of metals, wire thickness, glass thickness and gasses to produce what we know today as the common light bulb.  Did he fail in the process, of coarse!  Did he give up?  Of coarse not (thankfully)!
So today I want you to look at your hot to-do list for the day.  What items on that list are pushing your limits?  If you're like most people, you have that BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) on the list, but it is at the bottom of the list because it is the most intimidating.  Eat that Frog!  Do it first.  Push yourself beyond what you have been able to do before.  Will you fail?  Possibly.  Will that get you down?  Probably not.  Will you learn from it?  Surely!!  Will that make you stronger, healthier, more successful, more confident?  I guarantee it!!