1. Pilot your life
Welcome to issue no. 13 of Pilot your life. July 2010
In life, when we try things for the first time, we have a 50/50 chance of
succeeding or failing (a very simplistic view).
During my flight around Australia’s coast, Oz Flight ’99, I landed
101 times on 90 different airstrips (this included return trips to some
places). Out of all those 101 landings, I landed at the first attempt
98 times.
The other 3 times I had to make a second (and successful) attempt at
landing because of misjudging my approach at Warnervale, New
South Wales (top photo), Daly River Mission, Northern Territory (bottom left photo) and Lady
Barron (Holloway's), Flinders Island, Bass Strait (bottom right photo).
In pilot’s language, I performed a “go around”, flying over the runway and going around the
airfield again to have another attempt at landing.
An almost 100 percent success rate on airstrips most of which I’d never seen or landed on
before.
I’m not saying that I’m an absolutely fantastic pilot or that I did perfect landings all the time,
because I didn’t. What I am saying is that I had a go and I was successful on nearly every
occasion.

2. Pilot your life
I had some rather bumpy or creative landings at times, landing on capes, on islands, on
Outback strips, and on not much at all.
Cape Leveque, Western Australia (left), on a cliff top and with the wind coming from both sides
of the cape and tiny Sweers Island (right), Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland.
Mount Hart Station, Western Australia (left) and Old Boobyalla Homestead, Tasmania (right).
When I wasn’t successful the first time around I just kept on trying until I was. A "go around"
for me in the air but for you it would be "If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again".
On the ground, it can be so easy for us not to keep on trying until we succeed. How often do
we not attempt things because we convince ourselves that we're going to fail or we can't do
something?
A pilot, however, has to believe that the aircraft can be landed safely because it's not
possible to stay up in the sky forever. A landing has to be made eventually, with the pilot
having three basic choices – land safely, crash and survive, or crash and die.
A very simplistic view again, but used merely to stress the point that a pilot really has no
choice other than to be successful.
So, be the pilot in command of your life and just keep doing "go arounds" until you get it
right.
So, another great tip for how to pilot your life (personal or business) is:
If at first you don’t succeed, just do a “go around”.
In other words, if you fail the first time just
keep going until you’re successful – try, try again.

3. Pilot your life
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Setting and achieving goals
Success
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