Master Your Fear of Failure

Kevin Smith
Something all teens go through is the fear of failure. Some even fear success because they don't want to be seen or they don't want to standout. Most teens just want to get in where they fit in, and that's okay for people who just want to live in normal mediocre life. Any teen who want to have high levels of success, be wealthy, or famous when they become adults cannot fear failure or success.

People who succeed in life and do great things have one thing in common. They all fail before they succeed. They don't care how they look or what people think about them. They do what they do, and they do it with passion and persistence. Everyone has things that they're good at or talented in. Focus on the things that you are good at or focus on your talents, while your still young. In other words, if you are talented in dancing, don't try to become a basketball player. Now don't misunderstand, we're not saying that you should not try new things in life. What we are saying, is that you should focus your energy on talents that you already have and enjoy doing so that when you become an adult, you won't have many weaknesses in whatever field you are talented in, and have a better chance of being successful.

One of the common things among mediocre people, is a lack of sticking to something. You may know someone who was a talented singer, but they never became a well-known singer because they decided somewhere along the line that they wanted to be a professional fighter. Then that same person, decided somewhere else along the line that they wanted to be a personal trainer. Hopefully you get the picture. You are not going to reach high levels of success, changing what you want to do. Stick to the things that you are talented in and enjoy doing.

Most teens fear being humiliated. People get humiliated every single day. In fact, there are people who make a living, humiliating themselves. People laugh at them and they get paid for it. It may cause you to feel bad when you are still a teen, but in the adult world, it's called comedy. So don't let the fear of humiliation stop you from doing something. Even though people may talk about it and even laugh about it, it's not going to cause you to be friend-less in the long run. You can even gain more friends or become more popular in a humiliating situation, depending on your reaction. The best thing you can do in a situation where you are humiliated is laugh with everyone else. Don't let people laugh at you without you laughing at yourself first.

Our teenage years are normally what steer us into our adulthood's. So do what you can to have as much fun as possible, and begin to mold your talents while you're still a teenager. That way you can get yourself ahead of the crowd in whatever it is you want to accomplish when you become an adult. One of the most important things we've learned as we've grown into adulthood, is that people will have their own opinions about you, no matter what you do or how hard you try to make them think a certain way about you. So the best thing you can do yourself is to aim at pleasing yourself and not everyone else.

Published by Kevin Smith

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