Failing Forward

Failing Forward: it means that if at any time you fear of doing something - just say yes - and treat it as a learning lesson or opportunity. Framing is key here. The fact is that if you don't ever try, you will never learn the skills to be good at it and have the confidence to do that thing independently in the future.

The counter argument is that you don't intend on acquiring the skills to be good at the thing you want to do. I.e. you don't find any future value in learning and acquiring the skills to be good at the thing you want to do - I.e. You're only going to do this one time. 

E.g. I'm only going to go skydiving once in my life so I don't need to be good at skydiving, there's no use in acquiring those skills for the future. However, if you can see yourself doing the thing more than once it even very occasionally, the value in acquiring those skills (DIY) increases (e.g. cooking a good healthy meal).