{"id":87,"date":"2012-11-26T15:20:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T15:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooadvisors.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2012-11-26T15:21:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T15:21:10","slug":"born-to-make-mistakes-failing-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooadvisors.com\/born-to-make-mistakes-failing-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Born To Make Mistakes &#8211; Failing Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We get ourselves into such knots trying to run our businesses and trying to run our lives.\u00a0 I see this every day both with clients I speak to and in my own deliberations about how I lead myself.<\/p>\n<p>Asking &#8220;why&#8221; we would expect our business to run perfectly as a hallmark of success when we see our live do not is a great &#8220;can-opener question&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In pursuing the argument\u00a0 a bit further, I see that life not only does not run perfectly, it is full of what could be characterized as mistakes, misfires, false starts, even failures.\u00a0 At least mine is.<\/p>\n<p>I now see these so-called mistakes as part of the design of living, as inherent to growth and discovery now as they were when as a babe, I stood and fell hundreds of times in learning to walk.\u00a0 These are the struggle points of growth.<a href=\"http:\/\/cooadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Business_and_Related_005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-48\" title=\"Enjoy Your Work and Enjoy Your Life\" src=\"http:\/\/cooadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Business_and_Related_005-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cooadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Business_and_Related_005-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/cooadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Business_and_Related_005-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/cooadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Business_and_Related_005-225x150.jpg 225w, http:\/\/cooadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Business_and_Related_005.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As my business is part of my life, why would I expect my work to be absent these same so-called mistakes, errors and even failures?\u00a0 In work too, these are natural signs of growth and building success.<\/p>\n<p>The kaizan process-improvement teachers have a saying &#8220;fail forward, quickly&#8221;.\u00a0 The message is to try, fail sometimes, learn and try again as step-by-step, the success accrues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a business coach, the one guarantee I can make is that in working together, we will make mistakes as certainly as we build greater and greater success.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We get ourselves into such knots trying to run our businesses and trying to run our lives.\u00a0 I see this every day both with clients I speak to and in my own deliberations about how I lead myself. 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