“In other words, perfectionists use procrastination as a way of surviving struggle, challenge and failure without the inevitable emotional damage. But eventually, they’re just damaged by the passage of time.”
Source: The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough
“Creativity flourishes with practice, collaboration, and a willingness to embrace failure—not as a personal shortcoming, but as a challenge to the systems that tell us our ideas must be perfect or profitable to matter.”
Source: You Are Creative: Free Yourself to Free the World
“The plan, after all, doesn’t always go according to the plan. If it looks like I haven’t failed, it’s because I choose not to see anything that happens to me as failure. To me, failure doesn’t exist.
I imagine that failure is something we tell ourselves exists so we can quit. It’s an excuse to give up, to say ‘Oh, this did not work. I’m done.’ It creates a limit on what we think we can achieve. Just for a minute, think about what it would be like if we lived in a world where we had no option but to keep trying. If you know you could never fail, you would never stop trying. You wouldn’t have an out. There would be no end line to fantasize about. What if everything we think we’re not capable of is an illusion? Then the plan would always be to keep going. There would be so much more space for opportunity. What possibilities would that space invite in?”
Source: Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
“When we feel insecure, why do we allow ourselves to forget our expertise? You know what you know, and you can carry those skills no matter where you go, into uncomfortable terrain. Limits are removed, results are open, and failure ceases to exist.”
Source: Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
“Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation”
Source: How to Fail
“Failure? Yeah, I can deal with that. But not trying? Now, that’s something I can't live with! Falling flat on my face is all part of the adventure, but sitting on the sidelines? Hard pass. I’d rather dive in headfirst, make a few glorious mistakes, and learn something than sit around forever asking, “What if?” At least with failure, you can say you gave it your best shot. The only real failure is staying in the safe zone and not trying at all. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
“If you don't feel about the first failure, prepare yourself for continued and bigger failures.”
“...loss can happen anywhere at any time. You have to face your fears to learn they can’t defeat you. You’ve survived all the pain life has thrown at you, and here you are, finding new happiness. - Ms Gina -”
Source: The Way We Touch
“Your breakdown wasn’t a failure—
it was a breaking open.
You weren’t falling apart,
you were shedding the version of you
that could no longer hold the magnitude
of who you are growing into.”
Source: When Life Begins to Whisper: A Journey Beyond Answers
“If a failure can be a bad break, it can also be an opportunity to learn and grow. When we embrace it as a challenging prospect and an occasion to identify what went wrong, we can avoid cloudy days and learn to breathe serenely. ("The postman always rings twice")”