Circle of Trust

To finish up our lesson in facing failure and removing the natural fear we all have where we simply avoid doing some difficult things because we simply do not want to fail, I had the selected PAX recite their section of the speech.  I also challenged everyone to be honest with themselves and to identify that something that been avoiding and to tackle it, then, at a later date, come back and share their experience and outcome with us so that we can share in their learning and development.

Here’s the section of Roosevelt’s speech:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”