Getting to Good Enough

Episode 44: Permission to Fail


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Giving yourself permission to fail can make it easier for you to succeed. This week Janine and Shannon take a deep dive into this liberating concept, one that was pretty foreign to happy-go-lucky Janine.

Discussion topics include:

• Janine’s “good enough” perspective on failure

• Whether failure is within your control

• How, for perfectionists, failure can feel more imminent and threatening

• Changing your perception of what is failure

• The value of viewing everything as a practice

• How those who embrace the mindset that it’s okay to fail are more likely to succeed

• The impact of shifting your definition of success

• How Shannon applied this to her first solo climb of a mountain

• Setting yourself up so that trying = success

• Giving yourself permission to fail enough times to get you where you want to go

• How choosing to stop doing something is a success, not failure

• Making an agreement with yourself to do something that’s doable to make success easier

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