Failure has always been the enemy for me, oh gosh.
It's an area that I am constantly, constantly working on.....I have a quote sticky on my desktop that says
"If we're not failing at something on a regular basis, we're just not trying hard enough." Translation: The more we try, the more opportunities we have to succeed
and fail, increasing our odds and growing bigger and stronger in the process.
In many sports, especially certain martial arts, one of the first things they teach you is how to fall properly so you won't get hurt when you get knocked down. Because you will. It's not an admission of failure, it's a fact of life
But OH SO hard for me! Accepting that the very best people in the world fail, and that's how they calibrate themselves for the next go, is a leap of faith that I continue to work on. I can still hear the voices from my childhood, reminding me of all I am not. Working on putting them into a jar and sealing it up like Ann Lamott...