If you weren’t afraid of failure, what would you do differently?
Love this question, such a simple answer for me. If I wasn’t afraid of failure I’d train to be an airline pilot. I know I’d fail miserably in real life at it, and it probably wouldn’t be such a good thing for you as paying passengers, but wow, it would be one hell of a flight for me. I’m a bit scared of flying you see…
It would probably be your last flight, but I guess that’s why we always have a fear of failure, as in truth you only want a super confident individual in such a position of trust.
As an aside, we should never be afraid of failure, it’s always disappointing to fail, however it’s one of the ways that we learn to avoid future potential failures. It’s hard when you fail a task, but you are never a failure, you won the biggest lottery of your life when you were born. The odds of you getting to this point in life and reading this post are apparently an eye watering 1 in 400 Trillion.
I first saw this WordPress prompt at just after midnight having been out to a colleagues wedding. I thought answering at that time would be a tad impromptu so I’ve held off until closer to midday.
Well, we’ve awoken to a hot day, kind of unheard of here in the East Midlands so that’s not typical but appreciated all the same. I have no hangover due to the various concoctions that were afforded to me last evening so again, not typical. I also have a day off work, and as it’s too hot to venture into the garden at the moment I’ve decided to catch up with some soldering I need to do to repair a Sega game gear that ceases to work. Again this isn’t a typical day.
So, in all and so far, the only typical thing is that the sun rose as it always does and I suspect it will set in a similar fashion. No day is really the same, there may be aspects that give it that appearance however it’s not really the same.
We all have input into how our days unfurl, I guess it’s down to the individual if they want to continually have a ground hog day.
Not me, today’s looking ok and totally different from yesterday. Just watch some little sod come and ruin it for me 😂
Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently?
I had to ask my wife for clarification here as my mind had drawn a blank. Now the flood gates have opened. In the words of George Michael- “Turn a different corner and we never would have met.”
Yes, this question really is a closing doors moment. We all make decisions on a daily basis, lots of them, and then occasionally a big one comes up and you have to concentrate on how you respond. Not all decisions are particularly bad, but hindsight being a wonderful thing you occasionally look back and say, “ I wish I had done that differently.”
Contentment
For me that moment would have been in the late 80s. As a couple my wife and I have always had a bit of a spend thrift attitude to money, if we had it we kind of spent it. Sometimes we lived beyond our means as I’m sure we all do from time to time but we had good times and made memories and don’t regret that for one moment as you can’t put a price on good memories. They were what we used to call picture moments, we still have them from time to time and we will occasionally say to each other “This is a picture moment” and we know at that point one of us has taken a mental picture of that very moment for posterity.
In the 80s we had a chance to purchase what was our old house for about £80k. Considering we were only 17 miles from central London it was a bargain, but because of our spendthrift attitude for life it was out of our range even at that price. Instead we poured endless amounts of cash into a flat we renting, we should have realised we were lining someone else’s pockets and not ours. We didn’t care, as ignorance is bliss….isn’t it?
Fast forward about 3 years, a little wiser and settled due to impending marriage and the offer for the same house came in this time it was in the region of £140k the price had risen by £60k. This time we jumped at it, it was tough and we had to knuckle down on our finances but we did it.
Looking back yes this is a regret that I wish we had jumped at when we had the chance. If we had where would be now? Would we be in a better position or not? All I know now is we are happy, we are content and happy with our lot. We do not envy people, in fact we are happy they have done well and celebrate their good fortune, yes we could have done things differently but would we be as content with our lot?
Like I said at the beginning, George said it all in his lyrics.
Regrets, none at all, lessons learned definitely, are we better people for our experiences? You bet ya we are.
Foxes Den 
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