Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success

A USA TODAY Bestseller! Chasing Failure will help you remove every excuse for not pursuing the life you want to live, and that failure may just be the quickest way to success.

We all have something we'd love to do, but often our fear of failure outweighs the potential of our destiny. But what if we found out that failure could actually help us succeed?

In Chasing Failure, Ryan Leak shares the science behind why people are afraid to fail, mixing in real-life stories and adding practical steps to help us intentionally chase failure in order to embrace the opportunities that come with it. Everyone fails in life--but if you're willing to learn, improve, and grow because of your failures, you are already on the road to success.

As a motivational speaker, whether addressing people in corporations, churches, or youth events, Ryan has a message of hope: failure is right around the corner, so be brave enough to chase it! The good life is on the other side, and as he says, "God promises to be with you always, even through the failure."

Packed with wisdom, specific strategies, and a key takeaway included at the end of each chapter, Chasing Failure will help you:

• Explore whether your dream idea is worth pursuing
• Count the cost and create an action plan for your idea
• Learn how to effectively deal with criticism
• Understand how to embrace failure and learn how it can propel you

By blending personal stories, get-up-and-go encouragement, and practical step-by-step advice, Ryan Leak will show you how chasing failure could be the quickest way to success.

ISBN-13: 9780785261605

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Nelson - Thomas - Inc.

Publication Date: 06-22-2021

Pages: 224

Product Dimensions: 8.50(w) x 5.60(h) x 1.00(d)

Ryan Leak is an author, speaker, executive coach, and filmmaker. He’s known for two documentaries: The Surprise Wedding and Chasing Failure. The son of a preacher man, Ryan grew up in the church with a marketplace passion. Today, Ryan splits his time between speaking in churches and doing executive coaching and speaking in Corporate America through his company The Ryan Leak Group, LLC.Ryan has a unique church position in that he is on the teaching team of five megachurches. He rotates speaking at each of them seven to eight times a year. He regularly teaches 48,000 people between those five churches. Ryan does about 120 events each year reaching 200,000 people and trains approximately 15,000 leaders.Ryan and his wife, Amanda, reside in Dallas, Texas, with their two children, Jaxson and Roman.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Chapter 1 Setting You Up To Fail 1

Chapter 2 Kobe Made Me Do It 11

Chapter 3 Reframing Failure 21

Chapter 4 Never Give Up-Ish 39

Chapter 5 Who Wants to be a Millionaire? 61

Chapter 6 Shame Off You 83

Chapter 7 50 Shades of They 99

Chapter 8 All I Do is Win 115

Chapter 9 Friends, Don't Fail Me Now 133

Chapter 10 Just Do It Scared 149

Chapter 11 If at First You Don't Fail, Try Again 167

Chapter 12 Don't Wait for Monday 183

Conclusion: Befriending Failure 193

Acknowledgments 195

Notes 197

About the Author 203