The Key to Achieving Your Goals Is Controlled Failure
3 strategies for making mistakes you can learn from
Usually this is the point in the year when everyone finally admits that their New Year’s Resolutions were terrible mistakes. Run three times a week? Quit Instagram cold turkey? What was January-1st-you even thinking?
But in Covid times, New Year’s Resolutions seem like a relic from another era. Most people aren’t exactly crushing goals, or even vaguely thriving. Most of us are barely keeping it together, each individual stress exacerbated by the stress of feeling like we’re failing at everything, all the time. And despite the vaccine rollouts currently underway, it doesn’t look like our stress levels are abating anytime soon.
So how do you deal with that feeling? You take control of it. You fail with intention.
Pick apart your fear of messing up
Most of us know that failure is a part of success. It’s almost impossible to have the latter without the former, and a big part of reaching any goal of any size — switching careers, writing a book, finding an actually relaxing nighttime routine that does not involve doomscrolling in bed until accidentally you drop your phone onto your eyeball — is making a few blunders along the way. It’s the doctrine…
