{"id":747,"date":"2019-11-29T20:36:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T01:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:53:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:53:35","slug":"no-success-guarantee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/2019\/11\/29\/no-success-guarantee\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Doesn&#8217;t Come With A Guarantee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s true that we&#8217;re never guaranteed success when we try something new, we can certainly take comfort in knowing that even if we fall flat on our face we&#8217;re still gaining life experiences and increasing our knowledge (thus getting us closer to our eventual achievement).<\/p>\n<p>When I look at it like that it almost makes me want to fail as many times as I can &#8212; knowing that each time I&#8217;ll get a bit closer in my efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The next time you find yourself faced with the question, &#8220;what if I fail&#8221;? Try turning that question around and ask yourself, &#8220;but what if I succeed?&#8221; The simple truth is that we have very little to lose when compared to what we have to gain!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s your life, LIVE BIG<br \/>\nJosh Hinds<\/p>\n<p>* Author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/successpack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Perfect Timing is a Myth: Tips for Staying Inspired and Motivated Day in and Day out!<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0089LOGYS\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0089LOGYS&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=themotivationame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It&#8217;s Your Life, Live BIG<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=themotivationame&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0089LOGYS\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00CPVF9M6\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00CPVF9M6&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=themotivationame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Motivational Quotes for Living BIG<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=themotivationame&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00CPVF9M6\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s true that we&#8217;re never guaranteed success when we try something new, we can certainly take comfort in knowing that even if we fall flat on our face we&#8217;re still gaining life experiences and increasing our knowledge (thus getting us closer to our eventual achievement). When I look at it like that it almost &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/2019\/11\/29\/no-success-guarantee\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Success Doesn&#8217;t Come With A Guarantee<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/jhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}