Almost all first steps are awkward

By David Bradshaw

YOU may not remember, but your first steps were awkward.

You fell down a lot. You probably bumped your head. You may have scraped a knee, but you got up. You learned to walk. You learned to run. You made it to here.

Well done.

The same way you learned to walk is how you learn to do anything.

Take some stabs at it. Walk a little, wobble, fall down. Get up again.

That’s the real secret: Get up again.

As long as you get up again, you’re never out of life.

I found the piece you’ve just read in Life’s Missing Instruction Manual by Dr Joe Vitale.

Joe’s advice reminded me of the often-told story about Winston Churchill addressing the students at Oxford University at their commencement exercises by repeating the words “Never give up!” very loudly several times in succession—and then leaving.

As an address, this always seemed to me to be a tad unsatisfactory. No-one could argue with the message, given that it came from the man who inspired Britain at the most critical time in the country’s history.