January 23, 2007 by Lani Voivod, Chief Scribbler.

“Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it’s spoiled paper. It’s perfectly good white paper that you mess up with and you spoil it and you fail. I learned to write predicating everything on failure.”

-Padget Powell

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January 12, 2007 by Lani Voivod, Chief Scribbler.

Let’s face it. For some people, avoiding FAILURE is part of their DNA, and the fear of failing is too entrenched to defeat. If you’re one of those people, this exercise is for you.

THE DIRECTIONS:

Write down these life-crushing FAILURES TO AVOID wherever you can see them regularly, then avoid them at all costs!

• Failure to act.

• Failure to seize an opportunity.

• Failure to believe in yourself and your abilities.

• Failure to trust the inner voice that keeps telling you the answers, while you keep ignoring them.

• Failure to live your life on your own terms, according to your own talents and passions.

• Failure to dream.

• Failure to think BIG.

• Failure to make your own sparkling, one-of-a-kind fruit punch with the mixed bag of produce you were born with (lemons and all), because you were too busy craving and coveting everyone else’s plantains and papayas!

A Supplementary Exercise (Only for Advanced Students of Life):

1. Write down examples of times you haven’t avoided each one of the above FAILURES.
2. Then write down how much you regret it now.
3. Finally, write down a solemn pledge to yourself that you will never make that same mistake again as long as you live!

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January 1, 2007 by Lani Voivod, Chief Scribbler.

“Fail. Fail again. Fail better.”

-Samuel Beckett

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