You’re free to fall.
You’re free to fail.
You’re free to create, pivot, miss your way, find your way, and everything in between.
You’ll never know how much you’re capable of until you dare the edge of what you’re capable of.
What’s keeping you stuck?
What’s eating up your time and energy?
Where do you need to get super clear on what you really want to do so you stop swimming in circles?
What’s stopping you from doing your best creative work right here, right now?
You’ll never do your best work or be great without knowing who you are (not who you think you are), where you are, where you want to go, and why it all matters.
Doing your best work means you’re willing to fail, make mistakes, and use it all as fuel for the fire of your dreams. To get it wrong so you can get it right. To grow a bolder and bigger spirit after every mistake, not shrink tighter and tighter into a paralysed ball of fear.
Doing your best work means you’re willing to get your hands dirty so you can live out your dreams and your calling. To look like a fool while you gather hard-won wisdom through robust, real-life insights and experiences. To crash and burn so you can build it better next time.
Knowing that you’re free to fall, to fail, and to crash and burn makes you bulletproof because you’re giving yourself the chance to develop into a future version of you that’s more masterful than you are right now.
It gives you a slew of opportunities to learn as you go without beating yourself up for any of it. You don’t know what you don’t know, and you can’t afford to let that stop you from growing into who you want to be.
Giving yourself permission to stumble protects you from giving up because you feel too embarrassed or inexperienced to continue. You must rack up enough hours of focused effort to master your craft, and you’ll never make it if you let temporary failures block your path.
Masters of their crafts fail their way to success because they’re able to separate their self-worth and self-esteem from the quality and quantity of their work.
They know that their creative mistakes don’t change the essence of their character and person, so they don’t misinterpret their professional falls as personal failures or blots on their character.
You’re free to fall because you learn to bounce back up and keep going each time.
You’re free to fail because you learn to use each failure as a foothold in your climb to the top.
You’re free to make mistakes because you learn to reframe them as clues of what works and what doesn’t.
Give yourself room to mess it all up and start from scratch. To learn from everything and move forward no matter what. To separate your self-esteem and self-worth from your creative wins and losses.
Protect your sense of wonder that you get to do what you do and don’t let mistakes define who you are or what you’re about.
Wear your scars proudly. Each one shows that you’re a warrior with skin in the game and you’re not afraid to fail or make a fool of yourself while you make your art.
Dare the edge of what you’re capable of.
Fall.
Fail.
Pivot.
Your best work is waiting.
Get on it.
Knowing that you’re free to fall, to fail, and to crash and burn makes you bulletproof….. no truer words were ever spoken! Good job.
You know this! Thank you, Mummy.