"That’ll Fail”

The killer phrase.
The threat of all threats.
The final blow, the finisher, the uppercut.

The enemy voice will always resort to the end-all-be-all of threats: “That will fail”.

I hear it almost every day. From where it comes is a mystery, but it comes with the force of a tsunami, and it comes anytime I sit back in my chair and imagine two or three or five years out. It’s the enemy voice that is bent on derailing vision, aspirations, long term goals.

The easiest way to topple a Jenga tower is to simply take out one of the bottom pieces—the foundation. “That’ll fail” exploits one of our foundational fears, toppling our plan, our hopes, our dream.

It’s a killer.

And the worst part is that it “predicts” the future correctly some of the time. How? Because we all fail. My resume of failures is longer than my resume of successes.

Here’s a little secret: the enemy voice always “predicts” the same outcome. “That’ll fail.” So, abandoning your work, your project, your unique vision proves the enemy voice right every time. The only way to prove it wrong is to push your thing through to completion.