Use Courage Instead Of Fear!

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill - Former UK Prime Minister (1874-1965)

Courage is the ability and willingness to confront fear , pain , danger , uncertainty, or intimidation. [ Wikipedia ]

A research I conducted showed that, most successful entrepreneurs and inventor noted that they will see failure in their massive project undertaking. The inventors and entrepreneurs viewed the possibility of failure with an undaunted attitude because the chance of failure was high as well as expected.

Think of Bill Gates: Gates didn’t seem like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and
starting a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data. While this early idea didn’t work, Gates’ later work did, creating the global empire that is Microsoft.

Also, Walt Disney the brain behind today's Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world, but Walt Disney himself had a bit of a rough start. He was fired by a newspaper editor because, “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” After that, Disney started a number of businesses that didn’t last too long and ended with bankruptcy and failure. He kept plugging along, however, and eventually found a recipe for success that worked.

Now Albert Einstein one of the most brilliant minds that ever lived also had his fair share of failure, Most of us take Einstein’s name as synonymous with genius, but he didn’t always show such promise. Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. Eventually, he was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. It might have taken him a bit longer, but most people would agree that he caught on pretty well in the end, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics.

Knowing there was a high probability for failure, these successful entrepreneurs/inventors all had something in common, the will to succeed,they therefore reduced the emotional discouragement and were all able to focus faster on problem solving.
 

INSIGHT
The key factor in this scenario is an equally undaunted attitude brimming over with courage. Can we recognize failure as a stepping stone, get past the emotions and allow an undaunted courage to propel us ahead? Remember . . . No matter the circumstance, courage counts!

Deuteronomy 31:6 says Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Always be willing to take that step of faith and move from your comfort zone to your faith zone and as God has promised us, we shall Surely succeed, the word surely means it will definitely happen and come alive.
If you are going to walk on sea water then be prepared to get out of the boat.