<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft" style="float: left;" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/Robert-Pagliarini.jpg" alt="Robert Pagliarini" width="93" height="142" />Get three strikes in baseball and you&#8217;re out.  But what if that weren&#8217;t the case? What if you could swing and swing and swing without ever striking out?</p>
<p>I have a metal paperweight on my desk with the inscription, &#8220;What would you do if you could not fail?&#8221; It&#8217;s a nice ornament with a positive message, but over the past several years I&#8217;ve realized that it&#8217;s the wrong message. Anybody can fail at anything. It&#8217;s important to know that going in.  A much better and more useful message would be, â€œWhat would you do if it didn&#8217;t matter if you failed?â€ To me, that&#8217;s much more realistic and powerful. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2010/02/6-vital-strategies-to-limit-risk-and-maximize-success-by-robert-pagliarini/" title="Permanent Link: 6 Vital Strategies to Limit Risk and Maximize Success By Robert Pagliarini" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":160,"date":"2010-02-18T21:20:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T02:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T02:24:57","slug":"6-vital-strategies-to-limit-risk-and-maximize-success-by-robert-pagliarini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2010\/02\/6-vital-strategies-to-limit-risk-and-maximize-success-by-robert-pagliarini\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Vital Strategies to Limit Risk and Maximize Success By Robert Pagliarini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/Robert-Pagliarini.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Pagliarini\" width=\"93\" height=\"142\" \/>Get three strikes in baseball and you&#8217;re out.  But what if that weren&#8217;t the case? What if you could swing and swing and swing without ever striking out?<\/p>\n<p>I have a metal paperweight on my desk with the inscription, &#8220;What would you do if you could not fail?&#8221; It&#8217;s a nice ornament with a positive message, but over the past several years I&#8217;ve realized that it&#8217;s the wrong message. Anybody can fail at anything. It&#8217;s important to know that going in.  A much better and more useful message would be, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What would you do if it didn&#8217;t matter if you failed?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d To me, that&#8217;s much more realistic and powerful. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2010\/02\/6-vital-strategies-to-limit-risk-and-maximize-success-by-robert-pagliarini\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: 6 Vital Strategies to Limit Risk and Maximize Success By Robert Pagliarini\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"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":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}