You don’t follow through 90% of the goals you set yourself. Doesn't that frustrate you? 

Do a dive into Goals and you'll find endless loops on SMART goals and systems and tips and hacks. 

You've tried them. 

So have I. 

Still hasn't guaranteed help my success percentages. 

But I realized something this week that has changed the way I see my goals.

The way I see it, I can approach my life from two different directions: 

I can decide now what is and isn’t possible. Projecting my current abilities forward. With limited insight and ample preconditioned nurturing, I can decide what I am / am not capable of. 

And then spend the rest of my life finding evidence to prove myself right. 

Or I can accept that I don’t know what I'm capable of and may never know, but spend the rest of my life in the curious pursuit of finding out. 

I want to be curious.  But, it's not that easy. 

The arguments and evidence for a limited existence are justified, there’s plenty of valid, real life evidence to prove all of the ways I, we, all of us are inadequate and limited. 

My relationship with failure is complicated.

What is your relationship with failure?

It’s not l something you’re likely to sit down and think through.

But for one reason or another, I’ve spent a good deal of time on that exact question this week.

And my answer is; it’s complicated.

The upside of failing is undeniable. And yet I’ll openly admit I’m not exactly keen on running directly towards the next failure.

Here's how I'm working to reorient it. 

~ Rory

Two things I've learned in January 2023 I wish I'd learned 20 years ago. That's what I dig into this week. 

In a nutshell:

It takes courage to rest when you know how to work.⁣