Everyone’s Failure Tolerance is different.
Some of my clients have a failure tolerance of 3 on a 10 scale…
And others have a failure tolerance of 10.
Today I am going to write about what I have seen…
that increases one’s tolerance to failure.
So, what do I mean by Failure Tolerance?
It is how you look at your failures.
You see, some people quit when they fail…
And others get right back up…
Dust themselves off.
Those that have a high failure tolerance…
Look at failure differently than those that have a low tolerance.
For example…
Let’s say you ate a perfect menu yesterday…
And then when you weigh you didn’t lose weight…
Or maybe even gained.
If you have a low failure tolerance.
- You become frustrated…
- You start whining.
You know who you are.
This lowered failure tolerance.
Will weaken your ability to achieve.
You will point your finger at your body…
And say, you see, it’s impossible for me to lose weight.
There’s no upside. to low failure tolerance.
It’s kind of like people who are all stressed out…
And all they do is think of their problem.
For example, your son got an F on a test.
Your thoughts all about that F.
Your thoughts should be on the solution to that problem…
Not on the problem itself.
So how do you increase your tolerance for failure?
In this case, you want to lose weight.
Anyone on a weight loss program wants to see the scale go down.
When it doesn’t…
We have failed!
We were taught to avoid failure at all costs.
In our example of our sone getting an F on a test…
He will tell you that he doesn’t like the teacher…
Or he just isn’t any good at math.
Many of today’s students just want to drop the class.
What if we were taught differently.
What if we were taught that failing…
Getting an F…
Wasn’t the end product…
But the start-up of the product.
What if we looked at it as an indicator…
An indicator that we needed to learn more, to experiment more.
That we needed to figure it out.
We should have been taught to accumulate failures…
Instead of avoiding failures.
If we did that…
We would have more tolerance for failure.
The more we fail the closer we are to succeeding.
So how do you increase failure tolerance?
You increase failure tolerance by doing.
Some of you can eat fruit for example and lose weight.
Others eat fruit and gain weight.
The only way to know if YOU can eat fruit is by eating fruit.
Here is another fruit example.
When I was young an apple had 2 gm of fructose.
Today, an apple has 20 to 30 gm of fructose.
You may need to experiment by eating heirloom apples…
Instead of eating conventional modern apples.
And then Wa La…
You lose weight.
The best and fastest way to lose weight…
Is by doing.
What I am saying is…
Don’t give up the first time you eat fruit.
Experiment with different fruit.
Yes…
Some foods are going to cause weight loss failure.
What if you didn’t know about modern apples and their fructose?
And when you ate them, you bloated, got a fatty liver and gained weight.
But if you eat an organic heirloom apple…
You find that you lose weight and feel great!
What I am saying…
You’re the one with the answers.
To succeed is to go and do something and fail.
That’s exactly what I am doing as I coach you.
By doing, by experimenting…
I’m finding out what works for your body…
And as I do this your tolerance to failure is increasing.
You will move from a 3 to a 7 on a 10 scale.
And the higher your failure tolerance is…
The more success we will have.
So when you fail…
Don’t get frustrated!
Don’t whine!
Start doing!
Oh and one other thing…
When you’re sitting there deciding…
For example to join this program.
You are doing what you’ve been taught…
You’re avoiding failure.
So when I ask you do to something…
Go all in!
If we fail…
Great!
We are getting closer to succeeding.
And your tolerance for failure is increasing…
Because failure is harmless.
When we are willing to fail…
That means we are learning.
And as we learn we move closer to our dreams and goals…
To our happy weight…
So…
Go fail and then try again and again and again…
And with each failure, you will be increasing your tolerance to failure.
So you ate on point yesterday…
But you didn’t lose any weight.
Don’t get frustrated.
Don’t whine…
Or get depressed.
Just do it again…
After practicing for forty years…
The only ones that fail…
Are those with low failure tolerance.
Because they give up!
Those who keep doing…
Always win!
God Bless
The Macs
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