Not My Proudest Creative Moments

If you want to make an omelette, you’ve got to break some eggs.

And I broke a few eggs this weekend. Come to think of it, I’ve broken a lot of eggs. As I look at my blog over the past year I realize I’ve had some great successes and some pretty awesome failures.

But that’s the thing about failures: without them, we never have successes.

We have to fall down to learn.

My Failed Newsletter

I count it a success that I finally finished sent out my first once-or-twice-a-month newsletter. Learning MailChimp for a non-designer like myself was akin to speaking a foreign language. After stumbling around and finding my way in the dark, I finally sent it out.

But I made a few mistakes… Continue reading “Not My Proudest Creative Moments”

Five Winning Mistakes

[box options]“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein[/box]

1. Fall Down

Remember the first time you rode a bike? You fell, right? How did you learn to ride? By falling.

How do we learn to get better? By getting back up… and falling again.

2. Quit

Sometimes you have to say no to something to make space for something even better. Continue reading “Five Winning Mistakes”