3: Better Late Than Never?

This is the part of microrisk-ing that felt so risky-- that life would get in the way of me really accomplishing this goal. One of these goals was to post every Monday about my progress, so what got in the way? The answer will surprise no one.

Job. 

I was given a project at the beginning of the month that I was really excited about.  There was a lot of room for creativity, especially with our managers telling us to be more innovative, change things up.  I really leaned into this, put together a theme, did research-- I feel like you know where I’m going with this.  None of it ended up in the final product. With every revision I’ve watched a little bit of the fun-- the innovation-- get removed or replaced until it looked exactly like every other product we’ve made. 

All of this made going through this other thing I’ve worked on for a really long time and cutting it down or changing it up feel extra difficult.  And writing about this process doubly so.  What makes what I’m trying to do scary is that I might not do it, and this week I didn’t. What makes it exciting is that I always have the chance to try again, that certainly feels like the bigger lesson here.  

Failure isn’t permanent. Failure is a transition into your wiser self.  

And please nobody refute that because I’ve had a pretty hard week.

So that is how it’s going. Will put up another update next Monday (for real this time), signing off with great purpose and intention!