Tag: failure
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Keep the lessons of falling snow during this season of failures!
In this season of failures, we’re embracing the challenges to understand what truly matters. It’s about building for ourselves, not just for others, as we honor the lessons of falling snow. Stay tuned for more insights.
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Keep all your failures!
Failure, don’t talk to me about failure or what I am capable of. When I wanted jewels for health, I wanted jewels for health. I trained girls, one school at a time, and took jewels to them to end the HIV epidemic and we failed without warning, without wining and without any wind blowing our…
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Keep all the ways you “light your path.”
see women invisible, like your grandmother, are like light in the path, doves on a rock hill, with soft extravagant scars, across the soles of their feet. see the steps she took, across slippery water, it was her, that first heard birds calling, palm trees rustling, a woman by the river singing, children crying, not…
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Keep knowing failure leads to your superpower!
This is about failure. A reminder that it fortifies growth. Those focused on success or places far, the ideas just outside the box and with no path to funding. Those that force us to arise or learn to trust. All the ways we seek for real knowledge not whittled down by requirements. All things focused…
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Keep knowing that failure is an option!
Failure is always an option. That’s my mantra these days. I have failed in so many aspects of my life. The one that I keep doing these past days is motherhood. No, mothering is not easy. It has never been. It takes effort and patience and moving in some direction even if it seems like…
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Keep failure!
When you have so very far to go, like miles to go, do not be afraid to fail. No one who has ever dreamed, has ever set aside the possibilities of failure. Like a third eye, failure is always lurking around, always inclined to teach a lesson. Be firm still and know it’s going to…
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Keep embracing failure!
Writing grants has taught me how to fail 30 times. I look forward to the 31st time. Counting failures is something I do now. Something I embrace too. The hurdles or the joy. The writing. The waiting. The bearing witness to, how things we believe in crumble, for lack of funding. And I have believed…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 