What a sticky little bugger failure is, right?
But now, because you read 👇, you can see its benefit (in a non-gross way).
Today’s challenge picks up where Monday’s article left off and asks you to visualize a bit of the learning. I actually made three different exercises for this topic, worked through them all, and this was the clear winner.
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This beautiful image of a shattered plate and perfectly straight lines is available in the downloadable PDF below. Here’s how to use it.
Start by choosing a recent failure. It can be a doozy, or you can keep it lighter (the doozies are extra useful to work through, though).
Next, write out a few negatives that resulted from that failure. Aim for 3-5. Space them out (use the first line, then skip a few, or jump to the other side).
Draw lines from the items you wrote to pieces of the broken plate (of course, I made sure there are the perfect number of lines).
Now, repeat for positives that resulted from the failure. Again, aiming for 3-5. Make sure you actually feel positive about them. No weak sauce answers here.
With the remaining empty lines, fill them with positives or negatives, as you wish. Connecting them to plate pieces as you go.
I want you to see two things as a result of this exercise. First, how varied our failures are. I mean, just look at what you created. There’s a jumble of good and bad all from one thing. Remember that. Claim it. Use it.
Second, I want you to see where you drew lines. Did the negatives or positives get the biggest pieces of the plate? How did you choose? What ended up being at the very center of the plate? I don’t believe in random, so if some things feel bigger (either good or bad) about your last failure, pay attention. There might be something more you need to hear from yourself.
Oh yeah, hopefully, it gets a little bit spicy for you. That’s how you know it’s working. Just like mouthwash, but for your brain.