How to be a pro at failure
Dear Creative Soul,
I have failed on so many creative projects that just listing it will be exhaustive. I'm not going to do that because listing my failures doesn’t make me very happy.
If I do, I'm only becoming someone focused on failing and not on beating that time and time again by starting over.
Don't focus on failures. Find gratitude within those things that you deem failed.
Wrote a blog post that no one read? Think about what writing it made you feel, and be grateful for that feeling.
Made a drawing and accidentally spilled ink all over it? Think about how you felt while you were drawing it, and take that feeling into the next drawing.
Look at your creativity as an adventure. Sometimes you take a wrong turn, or stumble on the path, but you can always go further.
Be grateful for what your failures taught you, and then... create again.
When the sense of failure still feels to big, play yourself back to creativity. Write silly poetry, make a doodle in five minutes, make a messy collage. Keep your creativity flowing and go where it leads you.
All that matters is that you create, and then when you fail, it’s OK. You are a pro at failure now.
Just smile and start again.
Create on!
Sylvia
I have failed on so many creative projects that just listing it will be exhaustive. I'm not going to do that because listing my failures doesn’t make me very happy.
If I do, I'm only becoming someone focused on failing and not on beating that time and time again by starting over.
Don't focus on failures. Find gratitude within those things that you deem failed.
Wrote a blog post that no one read? Think about what writing it made you feel, and be grateful for that feeling.
Made a drawing and accidentally spilled ink all over it? Think about how you felt while you were drawing it, and take that feeling into the next drawing.
Look at your creativity as an adventure. Sometimes you take a wrong turn, or stumble on the path, but you can always go further.
Be grateful for what your failures taught you, and then... create again.
When the sense of failure still feels to big, play yourself back to creativity. Write silly poetry, make a doodle in five minutes, make a messy collage. Keep your creativity flowing and go where it leads you.
All that matters is that you create, and then when you fail, it’s OK. You are a pro at failure now.
Just smile and start again.
Create on!
Sylvia