Stand out

Does anyone fear failure?  I personally believe that most people are not afraid to fail anymore.  Possibly when you were younger and you had bad thoughts if you failed at something then your parents would not be happy with you, but that changed.  I know with myself when I was young I believed if I did not do my homework that my parents would kill me.  Not literally though, they were not that mean, but I knew my mother and father were very strict about me doing my homework.  Every day at school I would hand in my homework and never did I think about what if I did not hand something in.  One day in eighth grade I was coming down to the wire on this physics project and I decided not to do it.  For once I did not hand it in and I failed the project.  I realized that it did not affect my grade to bad so I thought that it wasn’t bad to not do it.  That was when I first failed doing my homework, and ever since that day I have been on and off with homework.  I have learned to cope with failure in life and I am not alone.  Lots of people are used to failing.  In the book Mindset they talk about failing and when your child fails what advice should you give to her.  I was happy to read the gymnastics tournament did not hand everyone a ribbon because it seems that today; everyone gets a medal for showing up.  Effortless won ribbons and prizes.  Out of the five options the one that you would never have the guts to tell your kid was the one you truthfully need to tell them.  Everyone needs to know that you will fail in life, but it’s the want to not fail which makes you stand out.