Day 1

Being a perfectionist stinks. I started to think about failure and failing and had to ask myself the question. Is it really better to try and fail or to not try at all?   Well... this journey is going to help me find out.  

If I were to try to succeed at something every day with the idea of failure being the actual goal, would I be able to fast forward my goals and step up my game a notch? or would I get too overwhelmed by my perfectionism and quit. How can I fail at failing.  I think I can't. 

Will I be able to actually fail at something every day? Will it be like the old movie "Brewster's Million"?  (Made into a movie 14 times and though I have not seen the 1980's remake, I love the old one- considered a lost film.)
Will it be thrilling or depressing to try to fail over and over and over again? ? What would it feel like to be a deliberate and complete failure for a year? Maybe I will be the first successful failure. 

RULES- I may have to come up with some as I go along. Is it a failure to come up with rules after the game begins.  Time will tell.


Day 1-

January 1,  2019 The Cartwheel Catastrophe.

 New Year's 2019.  After watching the ball drop on Time Square, we were goofing around and I decided to do a cartwheel like my son has been teaching himself to do. I didn't plan on failing, I have done millions of cartwheels in my life and why should a few years make any difference.  Well... I didn't even make it through half the cartwheel and I collapsed as soon as I was in a headstand.  My husband and son both reminded me they tried to talk me out of it, but 5 minutes into the new year, I successfully failed at a cartwheel and hurt my hip and now I can barely walk.

Later that day, while I was drying my hair over our heating vent (another blog post I'm sure) I decided to do 100 back leg lifts on each side.  Now remember, I have a hurt hip, but since I am trying to fail, I push through it.  It hurt like. . . a lot.  But I did it and not only did I not fail, I helped my hip a great deal in the process.

I always watch the Rose Parade and every year it inspires me to create and design a float for a parade.  This might just be the year I do it.



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