It Is Impossible to Fail

Success isn’t a spotless notebook. Success is refusing to surrender authorship.

Help put Five Minutes in America on the radio—and hear the stories first as a paid member of The Coffman Chronicle:

If somebody asked me to sum up everything I have learned about success in one sentence, this would be it:

It is impossible to fail.

We fail at things. We lose opportunities. We make mistakes. We write sentences we wish we could erase.

But those failures are events inside a life. They are not the verdict on a life.

Your life is the notebook. Your purpose is the pencil. The eraser reminds us that a mistake does not have to become a commandment.

You can make a correction. You can learn from the pages you cannot change. And while there is still an empty line in front of you, you can write the next sentence yourself.

In this episode of Along the Way, I also share the first taste of the music for Five Minutes in America—my new storytelling program coming to radio five days a week, five minutes at a time.

These stories won’t tell you which political team to join or ask you to spend five more minutes angry at somebody you have never met. They will take you to kitchen tables, fence lines, bait shops, front porches, and courthouse squares—places where ordinary people reveal who they are.

Paid members of The Coffman Chronicle will hear Five Minutes in America before the stories reach radio. Membership is $8 monthly or $80 annually, and it helps carry these stories from my notebook to the airwaves.

So let me ask you:

Who’s writing your story?

Tell me in the comments—and share this with someone who may be ready to take their pencil back.

I’m Tony Michaels. I’ll see you along the way.