Our direction in life always move along with who you think you are.
All the defination, principles and reasoning in life is a based on what you think.
It's all is in your mind.
To my own interpretation:
The greatest problem with those people that always confesses failure is not the fear of failure but rather the fear of how people will look at them when they fail. What they are really doing is that to lower the expectation of others so that even if they would fail, there will always be a word of encouragement and not judgement on what they did not achieve. But didn't did they realise as they keep this habit of negative confession soon it became a lie in their life and un-knowingly it appear to them as truth and soon they will find it hard to resist that belief or i should say that "lie" that they said.
But why would people even want to do that? Again this goes down to their self-identity, the foundation of their self-identity.
Some people build their foundation on beliefs, some on people's opinion, some on achievement and some on culture. Of course there can be more but to me these are the main. So what is the foundation of your identity? No matter what, build on something that is constanst, stable and never fail.Cause if your foundation fail all things will eventually fall just like a building. As for me, I thank God that i found Jesus! His word never fail! And i know when i trust and build my life on His word i would be safe and secure of who I am thus failure to me no longer has a foot-hold in my life. I do fail but i don't lose my identity. Sun shine or rain i am still who i am. I am still Rachel Isabelle the child of God! I still believe that i can have better life.