Failing is always a given…
Why I Want My Clients to Be OK With Failing
My granddaughter is learning how to catch a ball.
She loves being outside. She loves balls. Especially her red one.
Most of the time, she catches it. Every four or five tosses, it lands on the floor.
She laughs and shouts,
“Grandma, I failed!”
Yep. You sure did.
I ask her, “What do we do now?”
She doesn’t hesitate.
“Keep my eye on the ball.”
The next toss comes. Sometimes she catches it. Sometimes she doesn’t.
The next time she yells “Fail,” I change the question.
“What are you learning?”
She pauses. Then says,
“I need to watch the ball and keep my arms closer together.”
She’s had some coaching on that. But here’s the part that matters.
She isn’t embarrassed.
She isn’t afraid.
She isn’t hiding the miss.
She says it out loud. She learns. She throws again.
She also loves when I fail.
When I drop the ball, she lights up. When I correct myself out loud, she sees something important.
Failing doesn’t mean you’re bad at this.
Failing doesn’t make you less than.
Failing means you’re learning in real time.
That’s exactly how I want my clients to feel.
I don’t want polished updates or pretend wins.
I don’t want silence when something didn’t work.
I want honesty.
Because the moment you tell me what failed, we can coach it. We can adjust. We can tighten the grip, change the angle, and try again.
Quiet failure keeps you stuck.
Out loud failure creates momentum.
Yes, wins will happen. And those are awesome. We celebrate them hard.
But they only happen because someone was brave enough to say,
“That didn’t work.”
Fail. Learn. Adjust.
Fail again if needed.
That’s how confidence grows.
That’s how businesses get stronger.
That’s how people stop being afraid of trying.
And that red ball?
It still hits the floor sometimes.
She still laughs.
She still throws it again.
Exactly right.
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