What did YOU fail at today?I'm seeing so many on here beat themselves up (or others doing it) for making a mistake/falling off track. It made me think of a video I saw about Sara Blakely (of Spanx fame) and a story she told about the question her father asked her and her brother every day at dinner.
Most of us remember being asked about our day, what did we learn, what did we do. Her father came at life from a different direction:
What did you fail at today? And they were applauded for failures. If they didn't have anything that day they failed at, it was a bit of a letdown.
No, her parents didn't want her to be a loser. They realized that the only way we truly succeed and learn is to try and fail. It's during those failures, those times we didn't make the grade, that we LEARN and GROW.
Stop apologizing for what you didn't do.
Shift. Your. Focus.
What did you try new today? What did you do in a different way? What scared the crap out of you but you did it anyway?
If you didn't fail at something today, you're probably playing it safe to avoid conflict or ridicule or any other host of emotions.
Look for something to fail at today. If you learn something (and we all do whether we acknowledge it or not) you have grown.
So go on...go fail at something! What have YOU failed at today??
BTW...here's the link to the video...
Sara Blakely video