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“If you’re going to risk and maybe fail, fail at something that matters. Fail gloriously so that even in failure, lives change.”

- Jon Acuff

Failure is a silly thing. [My husband makes fun of me for calling things silly. He has started to tell me that I should write notes that announce the silliness I point out daily and leave them for people to read, usually the perpetrators of the silliness.]


It is a silly thing and yet the fear of it can be paralyzing. The grasp that it has over so many people [myself included] is so sad, especially before it [failure] even occurs.


A girl in my small group told me in the car on Sunday that a study showed that if a woman is convinced that she is going to fail, her performance drops dramatically. [Apparently, men perform the same.] [I tried to look this article up, but Google only showed articles on heart failure.] 


I found this quote today and this month it will be my motto. [Maybe next month, too. We'll see.]