May 20th
8 o’clock in the morning I’m driving to
Elizabethtown Kentucky nervous scared I
didn’t get any sleep the night before
but as I’m driving I’m just thinking to
myself I can still turn around I can go
back home I really don’t have to do this
two hours go by pretty fast and I’m in
the parking lot still talking to myself
giving myself a pep talk still telling
myself I can turn around I can still go
back home I don’t have to do this next
thing I know I’m climbing onto the
airplane with five other people my heart
is beating just like it’s beating on
this stage tonight I’m nervous we begin
to take off we get higher and higher the
temperature starts to drop the guy
that’s behind me and instructors telling
me all these different things and then
he tells me he’s he’s a little nervous
he’s scared and he’s done this more
times than me obviously it’s my first
time and he’s scared so as we continue
to go up and go up we finally get 10,000
feet in the air the door is open the
whole time
you can look out and see and I’m still
thinking I don’t have to do this I can
just ride back down with the pilot and
just tell my family and friends that I
don’t know something happened to the
plane and I didn’t get to make it on
there but I went ahead and continued to
talk myself into this and the first guy
goes out and then they tell me I’m up
next get up to the edge and I’m looking
down everything looks like dots and I’m
just thinking to myself why did I do
this why did I agree to do this I could
be in my bed on a Saturday night
relax I’m on a Saturday morning relaxing
instead of jumping out of a perfectly
flying airplane and jumping 10,000 feet
in the air but my reasoning for doing
that was basically to confront my fear I
have a tradition that I’ve done for the
past few years where I always try to
find one thing that I’m terrified of
doing and do that
because one of my biggest fears is
failing so that helps me deal with
failure
the fear of failing holds a lot of us
back and raise your hand if you’ve been
afraid to fail at something in life
hopefully everybody raises my man and
friends not afraid but that’s that’s
okay there we go I’ll take the fist no
one likes to fail but the truth is
whether we like to fail or not failing
is an important part of life we’ve all
failed at something and we all except
for him has been afraid to fail it’s
impossible to go through life without
experiencing some kind of failure with
that taking risk it’s very important
either you succeed are you failed I want
you all to think of failing not as a bad
way but as a way of learning through
failing we learn from our mistakes and
when we learn we grow as a young
entrepreneur I failed more times than I
first thing that comes to mind is
theater I failed theater I couldn’t
remember the lines obviously but one of
the best things I did in life was
started a non-profit as Claire said I’m
a founder of a non-profit here in
Evansville Indiana I was terrified of
doing this talk to a lot of people a lot
of people told me their struggles and
what they went through
but I had to overcome my fear I knew
this is what God called me to do so I
had to do it no matter what I want you
all to think of something that you’re
afraid of doing maybe you want to write
a book maybe you want to start a podcast
or maybe you want to get your masters
don’t let the fear of failure hold you
back go out there and fail and fail
don’t try to fill in on purpose but fail
but continue to bounce back because we
all fail in life but it’s what we do
after we fail that’s important so I want
you all to give yourself permission to
fail and don’t be afraid to fail be
afraid not to try and that’s my talk for today thank you
8 o’clock in the morning I’m driving to
Elizabethtown Kentucky nervous scared I
didn’t get any sleep the night before
but as I’m driving I’m just thinking to
myself I can still turn around I can go
back home I really don’t have to do this
two hours go by pretty fast and I’m in
the parking lot still talking to myself
giving myself a pep talk still telling
myself I can turn around I can still go
back home I don’t have to do this next
thing I know I’m climbing onto the
airplane with five other people my heart
is beating just like it’s beating on
this stage tonight I’m nervous we begin
to take off we get higher and higher the
temperature starts to drop the guy
that’s behind me and instructors telling
me all these different things and then
he tells me he’s he’s a little nervous
he’s scared and he’s done this more
times than me obviously it’s my first
time and he’s scared so as we continue
to go up and go up we finally get 10,000
feet in the air the door is open the
whole time
you can look out and see and I’m still
thinking I don’t have to do this I can
just ride back down with the pilot and
just tell my family and friends that I
don’t know something happened to the
plane and I didn’t get to make it on
there but I went ahead and continued to
talk myself into this and the first guy
goes out and then they tell me I’m up
next get up to the edge and I’m looking
down everything looks like dots and I’m
just thinking to myself why did I do
this why did I agree to do this I could
be in my bed on a Saturday night
relax I’m on a Saturday morning relaxing
instead of jumping out of a perfectly
flying airplane and jumping 10,000 feet
in the air but my reasoning for doing
that was basically to confront my fear I
have a tradition that I’ve done for the
past few years where I always try to
find one thing that I’m terrified of
doing and do that
because one of my biggest fears is
failing so that helps me deal with
failure
the fear of failing holds a lot of us
back and raise your hand if you’ve been
afraid to fail at something in life
hopefully everybody raises my man and
friends not afraid but that’s that’s
okay there we go I’ll take the fist no
one likes to fail but the truth is
whether we like to fail or not failing
is an important part of life we’ve all
failed at something and we all except
for him has been afraid to fail it’s
impossible to go through life without
experiencing some kind of failure with
that taking risk it’s very important
either you succeed are you failed I want
you all to think of failing not as a bad
way but as a way of learning through
failing we learn from our mistakes and
when we learn we grow as a young
entrepreneur I failed more times than I
first thing that comes to mind is
theater I failed theater I couldn’t
remember the lines obviously but one of
the best things I did in life was
started a non-profit as Claire said I’m
a founder of a non-profit here in
Evansville Indiana I was terrified of
doing this talk to a lot of people a lot
of people told me their struggles and
what they went through
but I had to overcome my fear I knew
this is what God called me to do so I
had to do it no matter what I want you
all to think of something that you’re
afraid of doing maybe you want to write
a book maybe you want to start a podcast
or maybe you want to get your masters
don’t let the fear of failure hold you
back go out there and fail and fail
don’t try to fill in on purpose but fail
but continue to bounce back because we
all fail in life but it’s what we do
after we fail that’s important so I want
you all to give yourself permission to
fail and don’t be afraid to fail be
afraid not to try and that’s my talk for today thank you
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