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Start again

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If something does not work out how we expected, then sometimes the best thing to do is take the rubber and rub it all out and start again.

Sure, we can tweak or adjust things and modify. It depends on how broken a thing is.

Patience and persistence are essential elements in everything we do.

There has become this badge of honour wearing philosophy of failing fast and in a world where everyone is looking for shortcuts, easy, and certainty, this fits perfectly.

However, sometimes we have to be brave enough to start from scratch and accept we’ve gone down the wrong path.

The great thing about this is, there is always another path, another way, another solution.

We will never create our best things in life if we are not prepared to risk and the risk is sometimes it just doesn’t work and it can not be modified.

Take a shower, walk the dog, go to the gym, or have a nap. Then take a clean sheet of paper and start again, don’t look in the rear view mirror for what has gone before. Look forward and start again, start afresh.

Things don’t fail

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Things don’t fail

The outcome might not be as we anticipated from the outset. Things rarely are.

We have created a myth, similar to the black and white ‘good vs evil’ story, of only two outcomes, win or lose, success or failure.

That is because it is easier to sell the myth, it is easier to always get us to come back for more and there is nothing more powerful than the myth that is a failure.

‘Failure’ needs to be redefined as learning. No need for any negatives, after all, who sets out to fuck things up?

Stop beating yourself up with their myths, create your own rules and simply carry on positively learning from the choices we make.

Better than fearing to do something because you might fail. If there is fear, then that is normally a sign you are onto something, it might not work, but that is how we learn.