Blueprint to Business by Michael Alden

Author:Michael Alden
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119424987
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2017-11-13T08:48:08+00:00

GRADUATE LAW SCHOOL AND DON'T TAKE THE BAR EXAM? REALLY?

In the face of hard circumstances and challenges, most people are paralyzed by the fear of failure. Paralyzed. Imagine a person who has wanted to be a lawyer their whole life. They first go to undergraduate school. Four years. Okay? Then they go to law school. Four years, depending on how you did it. All that's great. Then to truly achieve their goal, they have to actually take the bar exam. Then they don't pass the bar exam, but at least they got that far. That's what happened to me the first time. But others go through all this schooling and are so paralyzed that they don't even decide to take the bar exam! I went to law school with people who decided not to take the bar exam, they were paralyzed by the fear of failure.

At the end of the day, who cares if you fail? The only person who really cares, and should care, is you. If you go take that test, or if you move forward with the initiative that you've been thinking about for years, and it doesn't work the first time, is that a failure? To some people, it is. Now you know better: it's just a temporary defeat.

Folks, this stuff works. I know it works, because I do it every single day. It's difficult to think about, but it's not difficult to do. We hear a lot about the power of positive thinking, which is very important. But it's not the be all and end all, okay? It is one step forward in the right direction. If you reprogram your mind, you tell yourself you're not afraid to suffer a temporary defeat. Wouldn't you rather have tried? Wouldn't you want to at least give it a shot?

Often entrepreneurs suffer a temporary defeat and call it a failure. They could have gone into that same scenario and been successful at it, but they didn't do something that's really key to success in general. They didn't prepare. Go back to my bar exam scenario. I was not prepared the first time around. I just wasn't. I'd also begun to reprogram my mind, to understand that it was not a failure. In my office I have the letter that I got from the board of bar overseers that begins, “We regret to inform…” I keep it to remind myself that if I had looked at that letter and called it a day, that would have been the ultimate failure and I would not be where I am today.

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