Are You Afraid To Fail? The Art of Embracing Failure
Hello everyone, today I am going to teach you three easy ways to love failing. Yes, you read that right and you can now close this tab.
Joking! Don’t stop now, this is a quick read on the best way to embrace the art of failing because failing to me only means you tried something out of your comfort zone and will find new lessons to help you improve whether in your creative journey or in life in general. So stick around if you want to give failure a big hug and say let’s learn something new.
Piece I made during a moment of contemplation
Be Proud of Yourself for Trying
Remember when you were too afraid of trying something new? Maybe it was submitting an application for a new job or starting that new art project that you weren’t sure about, whatever it was at one point you always wanted to try. If you did end up trying, congratulations on pushing yourself in new directions. If you failed, congratulations still for putting yourself in this new position even if you were not in control of the outcome. I know it’s difficult to see it that way during the situation and that’s also okay. Embrace the emotions that come with experiencing failure and give yourself time. When the time comes, I hope you can look back at the time you were too afraid to start that new and scary step or project and see where you are now and say, I’m proud of myself for trying.
2. Failure brings Community
Hopefully, you have found a supportive circle that you can communicate your feelings to surrounding your good/bad experiences. If you do, that’s amazing (if not I am here for you friend, shoot me a message whenever!), be prepared to have lots of love after your failure. I find when I experience failure and I share my feelings with my loved ones, they bring me comfort and open up with their own experience with failure. Failure brings a community and I embrace it as it leads to stories being shared and lessons that I can move forward with in the future.
3. You’ve Already Done it Once (Maybe Even Twice) and You Know You Can Try Again
Try remembering a time when you failed? Do you remember the uncomfortable feelings? The feeling that reminds you you’re not perfect and the feeling that hopefully helps you realize that’s okay. Being human means not being perfect, it means having the ability to try and try again and know you can survive and have a lifetime to keep going. It’s the most reassuring feeling as an outcome of failing, to realize that you’ve already done it and you can try again because we are allowed to.
So, what's something you’ve always wanted to try but are too afraid to fail in? Give it a try, the worst that can happen is you fail and as we now know, that's not the worst outcome in the world.
