Tag Archives: failure

The last stand: $363, love, fear and baby steps

  This is it. Today’s the day. My tuition is due by the end of the day, and as the fancy pink graphic below shows, I’m just $363 from my goal. BAM! That feels good. As I wrote the other day, I’ve been working hard to make sure that my journey is one of love, [...]

“Live the questions.”

“…I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to [...]

Success & Failure – Take 2

So I feel like I need to return to this subject and make a few clarifying points. Because I’m afraid I’ve been misunderstood. Lisa Call left this comment on my blog yesterday: I think this post is interesting in that it demonstrates that there are definitely some very negative ways to interpret the words success [...]

Success & failure

Two very loaded words, I know. And they’re tossed around so much that we don’t even pay them that much attention anymore. We just assume that they’re Important. The thing is though – what do they mean? What is success? What is failure? They’re tricky questions to answer. Is success making hundreds of thousands of [...]

Honouring my mistakes

When the world comes crashing down on your head, the absolute first thing we always want to do is make it go away. And can you blame us? It sucks – why on earth would we want to keep it around? Particularly any reminders of it. Get rid of those too. Get rid of everything [...]