Bryan Willmert

Failure is one of the greatest fears of my life, next to drowning or being trapped in an extremely tight place. Failure has never been acceptable. Going back to sports, I’ve always had to win and to be honest, I have done a decent job with it. I haven’t been a big time “winner”. You know that guy, he wins everything and every opportunity. But for me, I hate failure. I hate it to the point that I will lose sleep, dream about my job, and over process everything to the point where I will fight and work hard not to fail.

This has been a crippling thing to me at times, and even so to the point that the fear of failure has crippled me from winning so then I end up playing it safe. I am working very hard to run with my instinct and intuition. Quite frankly, I am not satisfied to just make it through ok, but I want to run hard and be in that place that resonates with every part of my make up.

Seth Godin challenges us to fail.

I found this video in an article on Mashable. Check it out.

I love this type of stuff where it challenges me to step out and get to the core of who I am. Be a risk taker. Be innovative. Don’t take no for an answer. Fight for the best.

Side bar thought: why do these types of things always come from guys who seem to be in a secure place in life? I’m just saying… i want to see an interview with someone in the middle of it and see their perspective.

October has been an amazing month for me the last few years. Why October? I have had the unique opportunity to travel to Atlanta, GA to attend the Catalyst Conference. Catalyst is a conference focused towards church leadership that also encompasses on leadership outside of the church. Where the Willow Creek Leadership Summit hits a similar target, it focuses primarily on the age range of 45+ year old people, Catalyst seems to be geared towards the younger crowd.

In this post, I wanted to simply inform you of Catalyst (because it is coming up and worth your investment to go) and the impact it has had on myself. This last year was one where I saw change coming in my future and knew I was in a place of re-assessing a lot in my work life. While I was doing all of this, I learned a lot about various areas.

I don’t believe that I will be going this year, but thanks to technology I’ll get to catch up at a later date and watch twitter feeds!!

Putting Yourself Aside to Help

Scott Harrison shared about the roots behind the start of Charity Water. How would a single trip change the course of your life?

You Will Encounter the Rough Times

Perry Noble hit home with me on this one because he really zero’d in on the dry times in life and how we see this handled in the Bible.

The Master of All Genius

Seth Godin was as masterful as always in his talk on transformation and being a Linchpin.

A New Experience Can Rock Your World

Have you ever run into a new product, band, television show, or something; and you were initially critical? This was my experience with Gungor. Their initial sound wasn’t striking with me, but all of a sudden this song happened and it blew me away. When I moved outside if my own thought process, I was entered in with some new music that expanded my world and gave me an experience like no other.