Something will go rong.
Starting from scratch is a very challenging task, especially if we set perfection as our goal. It can take hours, days, or even months to create progress, and sometimes we even become stagnant. This mental objective hinders us from being creative and efficient in our work. It is because we are avoiding mistakes.
Lately, I have been trying to establish my professional profile on different social media platforms for graphic design. It was an enticing idea, but after a few days, my bank of creativity went empty. I felt like the universe wants me to fail, or sometimes, feel like I am a parody of myself. I spent hours undisturbed, but I ended up staring at a blank digital canvas with no direction in mind.
My aim back then was to create perfect posts every day, but everything went downhill. I may be able to do posts, but it seems mediocre and left me unsatisfied. After that incident, I disconnected myself from the work I was doing and searched for positivity online. I bumped into a quote from Mark Twain which fits my needs, and this is how it goes “Eat a live frog in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
That aphorism gave me an insight that something will always go wrong. We can not identify when these failure leading uncertainties would happen. But, progress is apparent if we give up our attention on perfection and start dealing with these uncertainties. Because at the end of the day, owning our mistakes is better than being stagnant and helpless.
