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Failing For Success
A Bite-Sized Read for Your Health and Your Waistline
I see it all the time. My clients commit to their goal, they have a plan and begin determined, ready, striving for perfection. Don’t get me wrong…the Type A perfectionist in me identifies deeply with this approach. In my own health and wellness quest and as a health coach guiding others, I’ve learned and seen how this approach can hinder us. Not only is perfection a myth but the true lessons (required to achieve the goal of lifetime health) come from the mistakes and setbacks. In personal development circles, they call it fail forward fast.
Fail forward fast (FFF) means exactly what it sounds like; mess it up, learn and keep moving forward. Perhaps the most important lesson is figuring out how to navigate “back” from the derailment. Momentum is real. I’ve heard so many stories of people who are working out all the time and then a day was super busy, and they couldn’t get their activity in. The busyness snowballed and the workout free days tally went to two…then three…then four and they threw in the towel. This doesn’t have to be the end! And it doesn’t have to mean “starting over.” If we learn how to reclaim the healthful habit, how to schedule the workout into the day again, that failure serves a tremendous purpose.
I’ve heard it said, “wisdom comes from pain,” from mistakes. When perfection is the objective, we’re setting…
