What would you do today if you knew you couldn’t fail?

Today, I want to challenge you to reflect — really reflect — on how you review your own performance. After each call, day, week, month, or quarter… do you have a process?

Every top performer in every industry has one thing in common: they fail. Then they fail again. And again.

But most of us still attach negativity to that word: fail.

Let’s flip that.

F.A.I.L. = First Attempt In Learning.

Things go wrong. Mistakes are inevitable. But the real difference is in how you respond.

Think about it — we were all once babies. We couldn’t sit up, talk, or walk. And no one expects a toddler to get it right the first time. Falls happen (and have to happen) before a toddler actually toddles!

Sure, parents can be in a rush to hit milestones. They’re competitive creatures — and trust me, I hated that part of parenthood…. other mums! They had a always have a knack of making you feel inadequate:

“Mine walked at four months!” 🙄

“Mine was talking at two months!” 🙄

(As if!)

Anyway — I digress. But let me ask you this:

Did you ever once doubt that your child — or you — would eventually walk, talk, and grow into an adult?

I’ve yet to see a town full of middle-aged people crawling around in nappies — Basildon aside (sorry Basildon, but who doesn’t love a good Essex joke?).

The point is this: those early falls were critical. Each one taught us something new.

Literally then — and metaphorically now.

We need to carry that mindset into everything we do.

Fail = Learn. And if you fail enough times, success becomes inevitable.

Look at Alan Sugar, Duncan Bannatyne, Peter Jones, Richard Branson, Elon Musk… They all failed — often spectacularly — before they succeeded. James Dyson created 5,126 failed prototypes before building the one (number 5,127!) that became the bestselling vacuum cleaner of all time.

He once said:

“You never learn from success, but you do learn from failure.”

But here’s the catch: you only learn if you take time to reflect.

So, ask yourself:

What did I do well today? What could I have done better? What else could I have done to be more productive?

Start asking those questions — daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly.

Self-review is vital for growth.

So I’ll ask you again:

What would you do today if you knew you couldn’t fail?

Don’t wait. Go do it.

Realign your thinking — because failure isn’t the opposite of success.

It’s the path to it.