Churchill once said "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." If you're like me, you've tripped and fallen a few times in your life. I really don't like to think about those times, or think of myself as a failure but, according to Churchill, the key is to keep up our steam...to pick ourselves up after falling, dust off those knees, and keep going. It's important to keep looking forward to where we want to go vs. concentrating on where we just fell. I've actually benefited from my failures when I've thought about how I can do things differently next time I'm faced with a similar decision, situation, whatever.
As an artist, I've also found this to be true. I try a new painting method for a background on a canvas that doesn't work, or I try out a design that's maybe a bit different from my usual style. I've even tried participating in certain art fairs that I doubted would be a good fit for my work, and later thought "eegads, I'll never do THAT again!". But that's the point, isn't it? I'll never do that AGAIN. I love that in the workroom, or in life, we can learn by our mistakes. We can look at the canvas of our lives and reflect on how this or that may or may not have worked in the best way. And we can move forward with that in mind, making better, more informed decisions based on what we learned from our failures.
Churchill knew what he was talking about..
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