What comes to your mind when you hear the word, challenge?
Does it produce the mentality of fear of failure or does it energizes you to say, ”This is nothing.”
Challenges are there to see what we are made off.
For example, the Sam Houston State baseball team participated in the Houston College Classic this past weekend against three nationally-ranked teams in Texas Christian (TCU), Texas Tech and Texas at Minute Maid Park.
What would have happened if they had said when they got the invitation to participate that “Oh, I don’t think we can compete with these teams because of their prominence in college baseball and that we have achieved consecutive at-large bids to the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament?”
Well, Sam Houston would not have achieved national rankings in four collegiate baseball polls; No.20 in Baseball America
Left fielder Luke Plucheck would not have had the opportunity to make acrobatic catches against TCU
and then against Texas Tech that made it on SportsCenter Top 10 plays.*
And Sam Houston would not have had the opportunity to take their baseball program to another stratosphere.
So the question is: “How long will you allow fear to hinder you from achieving your dreams?”
As Jen Groover put it when she launched her successful product, “The Butler Bag” in her book, “What If And Why Not?:
“Regret is Much Worse Than Failure.”
So do not let the fear of failure prevent you from achieving your dreams.
*Videos courtesy of the Southland Conference via CSN Houston
Cheval John is the Founder and CEO of Vallano Media, LLC, a marketing agency which helps small to mid-sized businesses use social media correctly to build a loyal following and in the process become more profitable.
Cheval was the host of "What's The Word?" a podcast about finding out what inspires people to choose their respective careers and how social media impacted their lives and business
He is the author of two books including the Amazon Best-Seller, "8 Lessons Every Podcaster Needs To Learn."
He has spoken at Social Media Week Lima in Ohio and at Social Media Day Houston 2017 about topics around live streaming and podcasting.
Cheval has been featured in media outlets including Ebony Magazine, Social Media Today and Forbes.
He was named a Houston Top 25 Social Media Power Influencer (2016 and 2017) and a Twitter (Now X)Top 50 Influencer by Onalytica in 2018.
Choose Failure Over Regret
By Cheval John
What comes to your mind when you hear the word, challenge?
Does it produce the mentality of fear of failure or does it energizes you to say, ”This is nothing.”
Challenges are there to see what we are made off.
For example, the Sam Houston State baseball team participated in the Houston College Classic this past weekend against three nationally-ranked teams in Texas Christian (TCU), Texas Tech and Texas at Minute Maid Park.
What would have happened if they had said when they got the invitation to participate that “Oh, I don’t think we can compete with these teams because of their prominence in college baseball and that we have achieved consecutive at-large bids to the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament?”
Well, Sam Houston would not have achieved national rankings in four collegiate baseball polls; No.20 in Baseball America
Left fielder Luke Plucheck would not have had the opportunity to make acrobatic catches against TCU
and then against Texas Tech that made it on SportsCenter Top 10 plays.*
And Sam Houston would not have had the opportunity to take their baseball program to another stratosphere.
So the question is: “How long will you allow fear to hinder you from achieving your dreams?”
As Jen Groover put it when she launched her successful product, “The Butler Bag” in her book, “What If And Why Not?:
“Regret is Much Worse Than Failure.”
So do not let the fear of failure prevent you from achieving your dreams.
*Videos courtesy of the Southland Conference via CSN Houston
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Cheval John is the Founder and CEO of Vallano Media, LLC, a marketing agency which helps small to mid-sized businesses use social media correctly to build a loyal following and in the process become more profitable. Cheval was the host of "What's The Word?" a podcast about finding out what inspires people to choose their respective careers and how social media impacted their lives and business He is the author of two books including the Amazon Best-Seller, "8 Lessons Every Podcaster Needs To Learn." He has spoken at Social Media Week Lima in Ohio and at Social Media Day Houston 2017 about topics around live streaming and podcasting. Cheval has been featured in media outlets including Ebony Magazine, Social Media Today and Forbes. He was named a Houston Top 25 Social Media Power Influencer (2016 and 2017) and a Twitter (Now X)Top 50 Influencer by Onalytica in 2018.