{"id":5668,"date":"2016-10-13T08:25:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2016-10-13T08:25:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:25:01","slug":"happy-international-day-of-failure-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/13\/happy-international-day-of-failure-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy International Day of Failure 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is also <i>National Train Your Brain<\/i> and <i>English Language Day<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>A quote attributed to RFK: <i>Only those to dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>We hear that failure is part of success. You can\u2019t success unless you fail. Which isn\u2019t quite true however I think that the bigger point is that you tried at all. <\/p>\n<p>Peter is a successful writer in many people\u2019s eyes. He was rejected numerous times before he made his first sale. But he kept going rather than throwing in the towel.<\/p>\n<p>I hide one of my first puppets from the world. I have it to remind me where I began and how far I have come. And I have to say that in the past couple of years I have honed my abilities even more. I have a box of failure that consists of puppet pieces gone horribly wrong. I learned from those and went on to the next puppet.<\/p>\n<p>Failure is part of life, it is what we do when we fail that determines if we keep going or give up. Giving up is not a bad thing either. You can realize that something that you though you were totally passionate about and wanted to do all the time, is not all that and a bag of chips. You are allowed to change your mind about things. <\/p>\n<p>Fail has become an insult on the Internet. The phrase \u201cyou fail at life\u201d comes to mind or \u201cyou fail at _______________\u201d being that you are not worthy of what you want to achieve. I find that sad. Everyone is worthy. Some people are just better at some things than other people are.<\/p>\n<p>I have learned over time what my strengths and weaknesses are. I know what I have done in my life to overcome various set-backs and failures. I think I deal with it better now than I did in my 20s. When I can honestly say that I did try and I tried my best, I feel no guilt in failing but rather the challenge of how I will succeed next time.  That was hard fought for knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>So fail and figure out from that how you are going to succeed next time. You may not remember how you learned to walk, but I assure you there was a lot of falling involved before it became rote.<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful for my failures that have led to my successes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is also National Train Your Brain and English Language Day. A quote attributed to RFK: Only those to dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. We hear that failure is part of success. You can\u2019t success unless you fail. Which isn\u2019t quite true however I think that the bigger point is that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5669,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions\/5669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}