When it comes to growing and experiencing new things it’s all about trying. Making attempts until you succeed. I recently read an article that talked about all the failures of highly successful individuals like Thomas Edison, Vincent Van Gogh, Steve Jobs and so on. A long list of people that messed up first, but didn’t give up. Some of their “failures” are in the upwards of thousands. Some of their so-called failures were in not being famous until they were passed on from us. No matter which way you dissect a success, make sure no matter what, you at least gave it a handful of attempts.

Try things, at least 5 times. Why 5? It’s just seems like a healthy effort was given, doesn’t it? And, because that’s how many times it took my horrified little Grace to go to the ear piercing parlor until she didn’t run screaming (I’m laughing right now, sorry, that’s awful of me).  She wanted her ears pierced so badly. She was truly obsessing with requests multiple times a day. I would bring her to the ear piercing place and she would watch some other little girl, and she would start screaming. Curdling screams. This trial process of her insistent requests, me driving her there, and then resorting to screams until we left was 4 times. Months went by and I told her, I swore to it in fact, that I would never bring her back to such a thing ever again. Then one day she truly convinced me. Or she wore me down. We went back there one final time, she closed her eyes, and Bang! She had pierced ears. We didn’t revolutionize the world, but she did revolutionized something inside herself – She Did it!

She made it worth it. And she had something amazing to show for it.

There are going to be so many times in our lives when we aren’t sure of the outcome. There will be multitudes of times we fail, and I’m speaking from that experience. It might take 100’s of tries or attempts at something until we succeed or listen to someone’s pleas and we give it a try. Moral of this story is that success always follows failures. It might sting, it might cost you, but you will never know unless you don’t give up.

Grace’s new, 3rd Piercing

Thank you for reading.