Fear of failure, or the challenge of success

“Fail and prepare to succeed”

Dave MacLeod, 9 out of 10 climbers make the same mistakes (2010).

Our 84km fundraising for Lombok’s school kids is looming large on April 10.  And as we prepare for this run a constant fear emerging from both of us – the fear of failure.  But what is failure?  And how can we overcome it?

The reality is that both of these questions are redundant, but this doesn’t mean that you do not feel it.  We will complete the 84km… maybe it will be in one day or maybe it will take us two days.  But, the reality is that this is an experiment.  We are trying something new and testing our boundaries.  So failure would be better defined as learning and without pushing ourselves to the edge we will never know what we can accomplish.

“Who dares wins” ("Qui audet adipiscitur") – without the challenge you do not have success.  People to often cling to what they know and do not challenge themselves… This was us about 5 years ago.  Doing all that was safe and expected.  But we decided to change, to open ourselves to seeing new things and challenging ourselves.  We have calculated the risks and then acted.  We did this was with our careers, in our writing and on this challenge.  And we have grown as individuals and as a couple…

The only way that we will fail is if we don’t work together as a team.  We learned this on a run a few weeks ago.  For the first 8k’s (of 22k’s) we had a non-stop arguing session and then settled into a questionable ‘peace’.  When you are under physical strain for a lengthy period this just doesn’t help, and consequently, we had a terrible run!  It was slow and painful (not just emotionally, but our attitude affected our running style and led to us hurting ourselves).  This lack of cohesion was a serious lesson… Together united (literally).

These running lessons are actually life lessons.  Challenging ourselves brings so many revelations.

Remember to purchase your film tickets by contacting MP (mariaplattAThotmail.com) or JK (j.kingsleyATunimelb.edu.au)… There are plenty of tickets still available, but time is running out!

AND please donate!

Cheers, M+J.

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