The True Master

“Without Fear, Go.”

“Go.” Says the automated voice of the timing machine at an Agility trial. It means it’s your turn. You hear it at the height of your anxiety of running the course. Why do you have anxiety? Because you have fear of failure. What do you do when you have fear of failure? You don’t take risks. You make mistakes because you are caught up on your images of what disaster may befall you instead of what success you may have. You don’t realize that in order to get better, you need to make mistakes. Your mistakes teach you how to do better.  The thing that all successful people have in common is that they expect and accept failure as part of the process of success. The next time you are at the line, when you hear the disembodied  voice say “Go”, add, in your own mind, “Without Fear.”