74. Fail More Often: a Growth Hack - Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE
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Overview
Found yourself stuck in the vicious cycle of ‘playing it safe’ to avoid failing at all costs? Well friends, it’s time to flip the script. We believe failure just might be what's missing in each of us to grow into the people who take our causes and missions further than ever before.
In our Friday Convo, we dive into how to embrace a healthy mindset around failure, and how to build failure into your bold goals and actions. We also share our simple steps for turning failures into a springboard to growth. Of course you can expect to hear some of our most palm-to-the-face moments too as we embrace failing right alongside you. We’re in this together, friends.
“Failure is only failure when you sit in it. Those who learn and grow are the ones who thrive.”
Episode Overview
Taking away the fear of failure (1:15)
Thinking like an entrepreneur and embracing their unique lens (2:00)
Failure is just a label that we are putting on it about our missed expectations (4:15)
Failures are just missed expectations (4:40)
Jeff Bezos’ Story: Don’t let failure stall you (9:45)
This space is not competitive, it is focused on community (10:35)
Focus on being brave, not perfect (12:50)
Jon and Becky’s stories of failure (14:00)
What is staring you in the face right now that you’re afraid of? Recognize that it is your own personal expectations you are putting on it. (20:00)
Powerful quotes
“We all don’t want to fail, and it holds us back in all the worst ways.” -Jon
“It really is about how you come out of failure.” -Becky
“The successes that I feel in this space are such fuel to replicate that feeling.” -Becky
“We have to be taking risks, doing things differently, and it is going to be uncomfortable in those spaces.” -Becky
“Failures are just missed expectations.” -Jon
“Be a lifelong learner. Show up, learn, and what is the situation telling you that you can change and make better the next time around?” -Jon
“Failure is only failure when you sit in it. Those who learn and grow are the ones who thrive.” -Becky
“In the grand scheme of your mission and life, what does this one moment really amount to?” -Jon
“If you can be poised and confident in hardship, people will start to look up to you.” -Becky
“Don’t think about failure as an end point, it is only the beginning.” -Becky
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
Jon & Becky’s Tips
1. Be resilient.
Those who are not taking risks, don’t have a lot of success. Are you doing things the way they have always been done? We all know we will experience failure in our lifetimes. Disrupt, grow, adapt and repeat. Daring innovation lies in the hands of the dreamer. When we honor that spirit, it creates truths that we will never stop listening, pushing to think bigger, and sharing. Risk taking is beautiful, and amazing things come out of it.
2. Play the long game.
In the grand scheme of your mission and life, what does this one moment really amount to? How you pick yourself up is really what matters. Failure is A-OK. Feel empowered today to take risks.
3. Be brave, not perfect.
You are going to hear no. You have to increase your pipeline by 3%. A part of our business is rejection, and it is not a reflection on us. We are human and we rethink everything. Embrace the fact that this is essential to our business, and power through it. Prepare yourself for what will inevitably come. Do not internalize process these no’s as rejection, this will just make you doubt your capabilities. Courage is critically important, without that activation of courage, you will just be standing still. We want to innovative, grow, disrupt, and then repeat.
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You are going to hear no. You have to increase what is in your pipeline by 3x what you are hoping to bring in. We are counting on the fact that we are going to receive rejection.
Prepare yourself for what you know will ultimately come, even if it is a no thank you.
Do not internalize or process “no thank you’s” as rejection. This will make you doubt your own capabilities.
Courage is critically important. Without the activation of courage you will begin to stand still.
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