Flashback to all the times I put my bag between me and the door and squish it so I can make room for my friends and the handles won't allow me to hang it over the headrest.
This conversation came after a discussion of my need for someone to invent a tote that has a zip on purse on the outside of it so you can attach it and detach it and it doesn't take up room on the inside of the work tote that is stuffed silly as it is.
So many times we hear ideas. "What we need is..." But what pushes someone over the edge to actually take action on their idea? I think skill level and energy have a lot to do with it. ...and trauma...
Flashback to my class at JoAnn Fabrics where we got held up at gunpoint at the beginning of the last sewing class so I never really learned how to finish things like hems and waists etc. I never went back.
If I knew how to sew, I think it would be a lot easier to create what I wanted. If I had the energy. If I had the money. If, if, if. Or, it may just be knowing that you'll have to deal with failure. One after the other of mock ups, and test totes, and trying to do new things that don't work before you figure out what does.Sometimes fear of dealing with the possibility of failure causes us to not even try. To be paralyzed as our conscious mind runs kicking and screaming to the bed to hide under the covers yelling, "I don't wanna!"
A friend of mine has been on a roll lately and she talked to a group of us about reading this article on 100 rejections. It has changed her attitude and the way she approaches things. The basic idea being, throughout the year to make a goal of collecting 100 rejections.
What does this do? Well, for those jobs that you'd be applying for where you'd go, "I'd like this job but I'm not qualified so I'm not going to try," you'd instead go, "Okay, applying so I can make my goal of 100 rejections." In trying for so many things that she'd normally not even go for, she ends up getting some of the things and so, to us, it seems like she's on a roll and successful.
In aiming to fail, to be rejected, she ends up winning and succeeding some of the time. More than she would have if she hadn't tried in the first place. And instead of moping and being sad about it whenever she gets a rejection, she dusts off her hands and does a mini-celebration chalking it up to another rejection toward making her goal.
It reminds me of The Kaizen Way. Taking small steps to keep yourself from self-sabotage into paralyzation. It's one of the perks of aiming low. You get more done.
Now you'll have to excuse me. I'm going to start with my small step of doing a search of free sewing lessons on YouTube.
