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4 May 10 “Trying” is doing with the intention of failure
The word “try” is poisonous to your resolve. It’s a word that pre-supposes the possibility of failure. Saying that you will “try” is giving yourself an easy excuse to fail, which by extension is an excuse to not do everything you can to succeed.
Failure happens, there is not shame in it if you have done everything you can to succeed, but giving yourself an excuse before the fact to fail will undermine your efforts, because you are not entirely committed, you’re not “all-in”.
To make my point: I signed up for the Edinburgh Marathon back in December. Up until early March, I had yet to book my flight and hotels. Sub-consciously I was looking for excuses to not go, to not prepare. Until the point I booked my hotel and flight. I had said I would “try” to run a Marathon back in December, but I wasn’t fully committed to doing so until a little over a month and a half ago. As a consequence, I’m not quite as well prepared as I could be, though I am now fully committed to going through with it, and I have the plane tickets to prove it.
You either do, or you don’t. “Trying” is a half-hearted excuse to not do everything you can, so don’t try. Do it, or don’t. “Trying” is doing something with a lack of conviction and the belief that you are going to fail.
