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Project Positivity Journal Day 5: It's okay to fail 🌸

As I was drinking my coffee this morning, listening to a random YouTube video, as I often do in the mornings, I heard the sentence, It’s Okay To Fail and I caught myself nodding in agreement and probably even said YEAH IT IS, out loud, to nobody at all, while also holding my coffee up with a celebratory wink, as one would 😆.

The speaker went on to say “…accept failure because so much good can come after failing” and again, I nodded my head in agreement and it dawned on me in that moment to pick up the closest pen and jot it down on the closest paper item I had, which happened to be the back of the Chewy birthday card I had sitting on my kitchen table for the extra 20% off code.

It then occurred to me that it should be my positive saying of the day and I ran (yes, literally) and found my journal and proceeded to write it down, as you can see in the photos… accompanied by, not one, but 3 tiny HEARTS, I can’t help it 🤷‍♀️

I thought about failure and failing and what it means “to fail” on and off throughout the day and came to the conclusion that I don’t think I’m ever afraid of failing.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I have some delusional idealism and think everything I do will be a success, no, I absolutely do not, BUT -if and when I have a new idea for something, I usually just get excited about it and start doing it almost immediately, if possible, not really even thinking about the end-game or if it will be a success or a failure.

My motto is: If it does work out = cool, if it doesn’t = I try something else.

I’ll use this positivity project I started approximately 5 days ago as an example; even though I would never think of something like this as a win or lose, a success or failure, I had the idea and then moved forward with it, period. I could have easily talked myself out of it, worried what others might think or told myself it wasn’t worth the commitment and time, but instead, I just - did it.

Of course, this is a small, more artistic project with very little risk involved but what about the