Provoking Your Greatness - Misti Burmeister

Why most people never decide to go for greatness Saying you’ll start that certification someday isn’t the same as deciding to get the certification. Without a decision, talk cheapens you. It provides entirely too much room for letting yourself off the hook. It’s easy to say you’re going to read a book a month, write for an hour every day, take on a new project, or finish your degree. Decision puts you on the hook, and leaves you vulnerable. You could fail. Actually, that’s not true. You cannot fail. Failure doesn’t really exist, except in your mind. You learn what doesn’t work, and you wind up with new information to help you in your next step forward. Seriously. Technically, I failed in my attempt to swim those five miles around Gibson Island back in September of 2015. At roughly the 3 mile mark, they pulled a handful of us out, motored us ahead by about ¾ of a mile, and then plopped us back in to finish the swim. With my decision on the line, I did everything I could to complete that swim. Three hours, five