Why I'm chasing failure (and you should too)

Success is a trap.

I learned this the hard way when people started calling me "successful." The moment I believed them, I eased off the gas.

Big mistake.

It’s not the fact that I’ve accomplished something, of course you want to succeed in life and business, it’s more about me believing that “I made it” and getting comfortable.

It’s the mental complacency of feeling successful that is the trap and what I’m referring to.

Because here's what I realized: The goal isn't to avoid failure. The goal is to fail as much as possible.

Your Entitled Mind is Killing Your Growth

Most people focus on what they think they deserve.

They want the outcome without the struggle.
The success without the failure.
The growth without the discomfort.

But here's the truth: If you're not constantly failing, you're not pushing yourself hard enough.

Failure is feedback. 

It means you're doing things you don't know how to do yet.
And that's exactly where you want to be.

Think about it like this:

Every failure teaches you something.
Every mistake makes you 1% better.

The more you fail, the more you learn.
The more you learn, the more inevitable success becomes.

But here's the kicker, as soon as you achieve what you think is "success," you start slowing down.

You get comfortable. You stop taking risks. You stop failing.

And that's when you actually start failing...

Instead of fearing failure, flip the script and make it your goal.

Chase the next challenge.
Seek out the things that make you uncomfortable.
Do stuff you don't know how to do.

Make failure the positive thing and success the warning sign.

Success means you're playing it safe.
Success means you've stopped growing.

But failure? Failure means you're pushing boundaries. You're in the arena. You're becoming better.

The moment you think you've "made it" is the moment you start falling behind.

There is no finish line. There's just the next challenge, the next obstacle, the next opportunity to fail forward.

Right now, think about something you've been avoiding because you might fail at it.

That thing you've been putting off because you're not "ready" yet.

Do it this week.

Not because you'll succeed, but because you'll probably fail.
And that failure will teach you something you can't learn any other way.

Fail fast. Learn faster.
Chris "The Systemizer" Punt

P.S. Tomorrow I’m doing a live Life OS Workshop showing how to systemize productivity and use Notion to get more done with less time. This will take place in my free Life OS Club community which you can join here if you have purchased the Life OS dashboard: