Hanna somehow managed to catch the entire season of Project Runway on demand over spring break. I’m not sure when she watched it, must have been the three days I worked. She updated me about the excitement related to a contestent that dropped out and the one brought back to fill the open slot. Apparently, Anthony, the designer who got the second chance, went from being a loser one week to coming back and winning a challenge the next week. Gotta love it!
Inspiration can come from anywhere; this is a great “failing forward” story. Take it and use it to help you decide to try again. Maybe you need to change your thinking about “failure”. Are you thinking small? Are you giving up too soon? Could be.
Take marketing, for example. Depending on the research du jour, it takes 7-11 quality contacts to turn a prospect into a client. You can view every connection up to the one that lands the client as a failure, or as a milestone to success. You can feel like a failure or you can feel terrific about staying on course. Your choice.
If your thinking is getting in the way of taking action, get over it. Failure happens. Everything can change, in a day, in a week- if you just show up and keep trying. As Tim Gunn would say, “Make it Work!”
