An Interview With Savio P. Clemente — Step One: Realistic Optimism — It’s important to be optimistic, but that optimism has to be grounded in realism. Blind optimism sets yourself up for failure. I learned that the hard way when I called my boss every 6 weeks promising that I would be back at work in another…

An Interview With Savio P. Clemente — Get comfortable being uncomfortable. If you want to grow personally or professionally it takes work. Most of the work requires you to step outside of your comfort zone into unknown territory. Fear is never going to disappear. If you are going to be successful or go after your dreams, then…

An Interview With Savio P. Clemente — Confidently Be Confident — Does your self-perception deserve a shift in conscious thought? If you genuinely believe in yourself… then act like it. If you don’t… act like it anyway. You can choose to change your self-defeating mindset and behavior, which can deeply realign any negative inner beliefs and conflicting…

An Interview with Savio P. Clemente — Take action on the first step necessary to overcome the obstacle in the way of achieving your vision for living a fulfilled life. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Have courage. Know that faith, without work, yields little. Then have faith while working hard to achieve…

An Interview With Savio P. Clemente — My opinion is that letting go of the fear of failure will improve your mental health and help you achieve your goals faster. This is not an easy exercise for anyone to master. It is ingrained in us from a young age that failing is bad, that we must keep…

An Interview With Savio P. Clemente — Discover the root of the fear. Reflect on why this fear shows up for you. Perhaps it was from a personal experience or things people have said to you throughout your life. Are you afraid of not being accepted by others? Of being fully seen? Of not being able to…

An Interview With Savio P. Clemente — Say yes to something that terrifies you. For me it was saying yes to a 30-day Reels challenge on Instagram with a group of peers I looked up to at the time. I didn’t know how to post a reel and the thought of it terrified me but something in…

An Interview With Savio P. Clemente — Change your perception of failure. — When I first started learning Jiujitsu, I would get destroyed when sparring with others who had been doing the sport for much longer. Many times we would spar against ten different people. Circularly rotating to each other every 5 minutes. Each opponent would submit…

An Interview With Savio P. Clemente — I would like to end with this saying, ”The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The next best time is right now.” So wherever you are on your success voyage, you still have plenty of time and there’s always time to make it. History is replete…