9th of April ‘25
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Hey there 👋
Over the past weeks, we touched on subjects like taking leaps of faith & reframing negative thinking. I’ve also been skirting around the real elephant in the room: failure.
I'll keep it real with you: failure sucks. It stings, it’s embarrassing, and it makes you feel like everyone is watching (allegedly they’re not, they’re too busy worrying about their own mishaps). Failure is also inevitable if you’re actually doing anything at all.
My take is that failure is not a dead end. It’s a plot twist. And what do we do with unexpected twists? We adapt, learn, and keep going. So how do you turn setbacks into stepping stones? I call it “The Three R’s”:
1️⃣ Reflect → What went wrong? What can you learn? (Be honest, but also EXTRA kind to yourself.)
2️⃣ Reframe → Instead of “I failed,” try “I learned what doesn’t work.” Shift the narrative.
3️⃣ Retry → Adjust, tweak, and give it another shot. Every successful person you admire got there by failing a bunch 😌
So, next time life throws lemons at you, don’t just focus on how sour they are. Make something out of them. Better yet, make a whole lemonade stand 🍋
Mara, sipping lemonade 🍸
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📚 Book: A Cigarette Lit Backwards by Tea Hacic-Vlahovic
I don’t remember recommending a coming-of-age story before, but this one is too good to pass.
Kat is a 16-year-old who so terribly wants to be cool. This story is about how teenagers would do anything to be accepted and how disruptive the need to belong can be. When she gets the recognition she craved, she also has to keep up with it.
Well written and relatable. We all wanted to be punk starts at 16, no one wants to be a poser!
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