Kara Goldin: “If You Don’t Try, Then You Actually Won’t Succeed”

When you look at successful people today, they didn’t have all the answers — they actually had a lot of failures

Wake Up and Write is an advice column from Moms Don’t Have Time to Write. Today, we have Kara Goldin —founder and former CEO of Hint Water and author of Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters — who shared writing advice on the podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, hosted by Zibby Owens.

“If you don’t try, then you actually won’t succeed.”

“I always share with people that no idea is crazy, especially if you just keep thinking about it. If you keep thinking, ‘Oh, gosh, I should go write a book or I want to launch this company,’ you can just take baby steps to actually go and do these things. People are like, ‘I don’t know how to write a business plan.’ I’m like, ‘You just google business plan. You can start to figure this stuff out.’ It might not be the best business plan in the whole world, but stop putting these walls up in front of yourself that actually prevent you from moving forward.

When you look at successful people today, they didn’t have all the answers. They actually had a lot of failures. They had a lot of doubts. You have to go and just take these little steps and figure out, ‘What are those steps that I can go even figure out whether or not this is worth doing?’ Really, just live your life undaunted. If you do that, I do believe too that, while it can be stressful at times, it’s also really rewarding.”