While preparing our home for friends one Sunday morning I’d made so many mistakes, starting by waking up late and ending with breaking my toe as the first person arrived.
Later that morning during a conversation about failure, one gentleman stated, “Well, don’t tell anyone you failed, then you won’t have to admit you were wrong.” My entire brain paused . . . . which rarely happens. It was just like that moment, while laying in an ambulance, the EMT gave me a shot to stop my heart from racing due to an extra malfunctioning nerve and I realized I couldn’t hear my very own heart beating, my brain was physically quiet! My brain really doesn’t shut off the super highway level of thinking it does UNLESS someone says something so enormously, gigantically stupid that I can’t even take it in.
Don’t worry! My brain jump started in about 2 seconds, just like my heart, and I raced through the entire spaghetti bowl of mistakes I’d made already that morning.
- Got up late
- Hadn’t cleaned up the mess from the night before, which put me behind
- through mistake 52 – If you imagine I remember all the mistakes from that morning 10 years ago you’d be wrong BUT it was a very long list of mistakes, from parenting to making food.
Mistakes, imperfection, and abject failures permeate our lives no matter how awesome we are!
Come along as I tell you the story of my absolutely favorite, enormous, did not see that coming failure. It’ll be fun!