This Ugly sketch is a fail for the best. Hopefully, it will grow up to be next week’s beautiful update.
Fail For The Best Week
This week started out kind of stupid yet wonderful, on Sunday at midnight and it hasn’t quite relented yet. My mom and I went to the most fantastic 80′s flashback concert featuring Brat Pack Radio. We had a blast dancing and singing along. Unfortunately, I forgot that I am still too injured to dance for an extended period of time, so I literally danced until I puked; from pain. I felt like I wanted to die for the entire twenty-minute ride back home. Nonetheless, It was totally worth the extremely unpleasant physical rehabilitation session I had yesterday. It’s not fun to still be in pain, but at least my failure in respecting my body’s limits turned out the best, after enjoying such a memorable experience. So, in the interest of keeping myself humble, I am sharing my half-baked misery from this week’s festival of failures to remind Rasputin Barxotka visitors that they are not alone.
Workaholic Fail For The Best
Sometimes, you need a swift kick to the butt as a reminder that success in business isn’t everything. The book Make Room For God: Clearing Out The Clutter by Susan K. Rowland, provided the boot to the backside that I needed. My normal mode of operation is that there is no failure, only opportunities to learn and adapt. That mentality typically serves me well, but for some reason, I’ve been more reluctant to maintain that mindset. Not surprisingly, I’ve been stressed about stuff like ad performance, page views, search engine results, sales and other minutiae that ultimately would not bother me as much if I were just focusing on making a great product and living a life that enriches my soul and those around me. As I read Rowland’s book, I could almost hear her voice giving me a gentle scolding and reminding myself that there is more to life than obsessing over work and meeting an ever-expanding standard of what society considers a success. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
