3 reasons to fail so hard

I’m approaching my one year “quit-iversary”

I started my first business almost 1 year ago. I quit my job without enough money, experience, connections or preparation. I guess you could actually say that I quit my job without enough anything, but I did it and here I am, still alive to tell the story.

I’m here to give you my short list of encouraging reasons to not only take the leap, but to keep falling even when you feel like you’re about to slam into the ground.

1. You can always get another job

Jobs can always be had, and money can always be made. The $60K a year job you’re working…. yeah… there’s another one of those out there that you can always get. You know what you can’t always do? Chase those crazy ass dreams of yours. So stop thinking that you’ll “do something” next week, next month or next year. Get off your ass and carpe that f***ing diem.

2. Discover that damn potential of yours

How can you possibly know what you’re made of if you never test yourself? This is my number 1, but number 2 on this (obviously perfect) list. Everyone has potential, but very few actually find it and milk it for everything it’s worth.

“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry our their dream.” — Les Brown

Start something. Seriously, friggen anything. I don’t care if you start a website re-selling tomatoes. DO something to PROVE to yourself that YOU CAN DO IT.

Best case scenario, you fail. — what wait?

3. Failing is growing

I promise I’m not losing my bananas here, but this is the most awesome part of my journey so far. I have experienced SO MANY failures in the short 11 months of my journey and it’s been the most refreshing experience of my damn life.

If you’re not failing, what the F are you even doing?

Can you think about the last time you “FAILED” in adulthood? Failing is learning, and learning is growing. If you fail, you grow. Failing is a privilege reserved for those who risk the ordinary so they can experience the extraordinary.

I’m telling you right now, you fail and you take one step closer to wherever you want to be.

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My name is Deric Cahill and I’m going to change the world. One failure at a time if I have to.