Create your own opportunity – everyone speaks about opportunity like it falls in your lap (and sometimes it does!) but often times, you need to 1) see the opportunity in front of you 2) take the chance! I saw Erica Ehm (MuchMusic VJ) at a women’s event I was working with, and asked her to be a guest on my podcast. She said yes. That’s what I mean about creating opportunity.
Get over yourself and just do what you need to do – ‘it’ can be anything from posting a video to joining a networking group. You need to do hard things sometimes, and by not taking a chance or doing something uncomfortable, you are only holding yourself back. So just do it!
Failure isn’t the end, don’t let it define you – Failure just means you tried. It’s never the end of the story, in fact, it’s just part of the journey!
Oprah Winfrey was demoted because she “wasn’t fit for television”. Walk Disney was fired from a newspaper for “lacking imagination and having no original ideas”. All time favourite Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team! These three didn’t give up when faced with failure and became world changers!
My advice is fail fast – change what you need to change and keep going. Don’t ever quit. Just make the necessary adjustments along the way.