What do you do in the face of potential failure?

Trying something new always comes with a risk that you might not be successful.  Always.  As in, there is no way to get around this situation. 

What I believe is that everyday we wake up is something new.  Sure....you might still be going to the same office, dealing with the same people, same issues, same problems -- but although it might sometimes seem like you are living the wake-up scenes from Groundhog Day, if you take a little bit deeper look, you will see that each day definitely comes with its own set of challenges.  Which makes each day new.  Which makes each day a situations fraught with inherent risk that you might fail in an area you don't want to.

The upside of this rather dismal outlook is that if you have the potential to fail, you also have the potential to succeed.  And one isn't really more likely than the other because neither of them has been predestined.

So it all comes down to choice and how you actually react in the face of potential failure.  Do you curl up in a ball and let failure find you?  Do you stand up straight, lift your chin, do what you need to do and walk away at the end of the day knowing you have done your best?

People make 250 (ish) choices about what, how and how much they are eating every day.   All of them comes the risk of failure -- but you don't have to make them all perfectly -- you don't even need to make most of them perfectly -- you only need to improve a few of the decisions you make each day to get to reach your healthy weight.  Given that, the odds of success are in your favor.  So...what are you going to do about that?