Ladies and those who used to be men—if you want to grow you’ve got to think like a queen.
Look, I know that so many of you want to grow, to bloom where you’re planted, to rise to the occasion the way that delicious you know what of Mr. You Know Who rises you do that one thing!
But what’s holding you back from thinking like a queen is your fear of failure.
Come on, admit it, girl! Isn’t that what’s behind your lackluster approach to life?
You could be so much more. And yet you act like a queen with her head cut off.
So what’s holding you back?
If you want to be a queen, you have to think like a queen, and thinking like a queen means not being afraid to fail. There, I said it: don’t be afraid to fail!
We have to fail to grow. And there’s no better place to learn about growth through failure than former Queen of France, Marie Antoinette.
How Queen Marie Antoinette Thought Like A Queen
Marie Antoinette, the last literal Queen of France before the French Revolution, knew throughout her life that she was something special.
First off, she knew that she was a queen. So it was only natural for her to think like a queen.
That’s the key: you’ve got to convince yourself that you are a queen, and convince yourself that you are in fact a literal queen.
Through the use of autohypnosis, you can convince yourself that you are a queen. Just remind yourself 100 times each morning before you get up, “I am a queen. I Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is a necessary part of growth. I am a queen“, and say this again 100 times again before bed.
INSIDER TIP >>> Better yet, why do the heavy lifting yourself? You’re a queen, after all. So have your children or partner say this 100 times to you, morning and evening—preferrably while on their knees.
“You are queen, you think like a queen, a queen isn’t afraid to fail, failure is part of a queen’s growth, and you are a queen.”
Second, Marie Antoinette allowed herself no alternative but to think like a queen
She wasn’t going to be a queen only to think like a peasant or a court jester or a farmer or a peasant or a serf or a starving guttersnipe. Screw that. She was a queen, and thought that way.
So she spent lavishly on parties, food, clothes, jewelry, and luxuries, delved into politics, and encouraged her subjects, the French, to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. It wasn’t her fault that they were poor. If only they would have thought like a queen, the way she did, they would have been able to see their personal failures as a means to growth.
Third, Marie Antoinette wasn’t afraid to fail. Not at all.
When she was criticized for her wasteful spending and failed policies, she paid no attention to her critics. She was a queen, so she doubled down on her policies and continued to spend more lavishly. Never afraid of going bankrupt—and what queen is?—she persisted in dipping into the national treasury.
Sure, some money might be wasted, but she knew that failure was a necessary part of growth.
Think Like A Queen To Grow, Just Like Marie Antoinette
And then came that fateful day that Marie Antoinette was arrested.
Strictly because the peasants, serfs, and other ingrates who were afraid to fail to grow were in fact jealous that she had lit upon such a wonderful mode of personal achievement.
Even after she was condemned to death, she wasn’t afraid of this failure.
“Oh well,” she said to the priest after eating an enormous cake just before she was taken to the guillotine at Place de la Concorde in Paris, “failure is a necessary part of growth. The peasants are failures because they don’t think like queens. Alas for them. And by the way I haven’t really failed anyway. I’ve just succeeded in a different way. Now, genuflect before me, and let us be on our way.”
After she marched up to the guillotine, she addressed the people.
“All of you must learn to think like a queen. You’re stuck on the short side of failure because you don’t see failure as your ticket to personal growth. Tisk, tisk. Failure is a necessary part of growth. I’m not afraid to fail. That’s why I will continue to grow long after this ordeal has passed. I’ll bounce back.”
Indeed, Marie Antoinette did bounce back: her head, lopped from her body, fell into the dirty basket below, then in a bizarre twist of historical fate, bounced several feet into the air, and with her final words, she said, “Think like a queen, friends, queens aren’t afraid to—”
But before Marie Antoinette’s head could finish speaking, it fell back into the basket and disappeared from sight.
The Last Gasp: Learn to think like a queen
A queen isn’t afraid to fail. She knows that failure is just a different type of success, setting one up for growth.
You might feel like your head’s gotten lopped off. That’s okay! Just keep insisting on the best for yourself, even at the expense of others. Because their failure can lead to their personal growth.
After all, you’re a queen—so are they!
A queen isn’t afraid to fail, and you must fail if you want to grow.
Plant that seed!
