PILLAR 17
Banishing Your Inner Try-Baby
Now that you are being honest with yourself, now that you are ready to take execution to the next level, I want to talk seriously about “try-babies.” People who justify their failures with excuses—“I tried! I tried my best!”—will never see the success they want. Today is the first day that the word try is now banished from your vocabulary forever. There is no value in that word. It does nothing for you. You are either doing something, or you are not doing something. “Trying” is useless. As Yoda said, “Do or do not. There is no try.” If you want to participate in your own rescue, you have to actually do so.
Going forward, replace “try” with “do my best.” You can lie to yourself when you say “try,” but you ...
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