Those who follow my writing may recall 10 days ago I committed to writing a post every day for 6 weeks. Yesterday I completely forgot to do this! In my defense I was overtired having had only 4 hours sleep. When I got home at 5pm I lay on the couch and promptly fell asleep until 8 where I had dinner and watched Dollhouse until about 11pm.
Failure is a funny concept. I have an overwhelming urge to go “Well, that’s it then. So much for 6 weeks daily.” But at the same time I am happy to continue and just take this in my stride as a small hurdle. I will just need to have a better system with ensuring I get my posts done, and even if it means drafting many on days where I have more time, and posting these a day at a time, at least I will meet my goal for the rest of the time.
Sometimes I get so drained after a long day at work, and just don’t want to do ANY thinking. This is how it was yesterday. At least I will have some drafts I can rework without too much energy. I prefer not to resort to just posting images or short messages, as this is not my style for this blog. I would rather create something worth reading whether that be a serious post or a simple list, than just post an image I like as my daily post.
In closing I wanted to share a list of quotes I like about failure:
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston Churchill
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
― Henry Ford
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
― Bill Cosby
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you’ve failed by default.”
― J. K. Rowling
“If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.”
― Mary Pickford
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
― Rudyard Kipling
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
― Thomas A. Edison
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston Churchill
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
― Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts
“You always pass failure on the way to success.”
― Mickey Rooney
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
― Sophocles, Antigone
“No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s ALWAYS had EVERYTHING work out for them with ZERO struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist.”
― Chris Hardwick
“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
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