#fail forward

[blabbershere]

Keep moving

[weeandfrank]

Leonard Cohen said his teacher once told him that the older you get the lonelier you become, and the deeper the love you need. This is because, as we go through life, we tend to over-identify with being the hero of our stories.

This hero isn’t exactly having fun: he’s getting kicked around, humiliated, and disgraced. But if we can let go of identifying with him, we can find our rightful place in the universe, and a love more satisfying than any we’ve ever known.

People constantly throw around the term 'Hero’s Journey' without having any idea what it really means. Everyone from CEOs to wellness-influencers thinks the Hero’s Journey means facing your fears, slaying a dragon, and gaining 25k followers on Instagram. But that’s not the real hero’s journey.

In the real hero’s journey, the dragon slays YOU. Much to your surprise, you couldn’t make that marriage work. Much to your surprise, you turned forty with no kids, no house, and no prospects. Much to your surprise, the world didn’t want the gifts you proudly offered it.

If you are foolish, this is where you will abort the journey and start another, and another, abusing your heart over and over for the brief illusion of winning.

But if you are wise, you will let yourself be shattered, and return to the village, humbled, but with a newfound sense that you don’t have to identify with the part of you that needs to win, needs to be recognized, needs to know. This is where your transcendent life begins.

So embrace humility in everything. Life isn’t out to get you, nor are your struggles your fault.

Every defeat is just an angel, tugging at your sleeve, telling you that you don’t have to keep banging your head against the wall.

Leave that striver there, trapped in his lonely ambitions. Just walk away, and life in its vastness will embrace you.

- Paul Weinfield

...Probably the most important piece I've read in a while.

Respectfully walking, L'

[mycollectioncloud]

Fear.

There is no reason to have fear anymore, There is no reason to fear.

There is no reason to have fear anymore, This is your upcoming year.

There is no reason to have fear anymore, Time is on your side.

There is no reason to have fear anymore, You’re already on the ride.

There is no reason to have fear anymore, Because while this is true...

There is no reason to have fear anymore, You can’t keep letting time pass you.

I am fearless. Capable. Possibilities endless.

With a dash of effort and a sprinkle of discomfort All of life’s problems will disappear.

[peter-jarecki]

The other top I designed during my brief high school ambition of a fashion career. Not feeling confident enough in my musical dexterity, it was easier to tell people that I wanted to be a fashion designer. At that time, being judged as an inept musician would have been unbearable for me. So if I didn’t admit that music was the main goal, then I was free of having to back it up. Eventually, I realized that staying safe is far less fun than failing forward.

[movemequotes]

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.

Ken Robinson, The Element

[blabbershere]

Failure is a learning experience. You can either turn it into a tombstone or stepping stone.

[blabbershere]

Comparison is the thief of joy.

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

“Head high, aim high.” - Alex Toussaint