Be Reborn and Fail Repeatedly
You may think of new years and birthdays as a kind of yearly rebirth, which is true — but also unnecessary.
Not that you shouldn’t use them as an excuse to regroup, plan creative projects, start new habits and things like that. Go ahead and clean that slate. Get a fresh start.
But these don’t have to be yearly milestones. You don’t have to wait that long to make grand plans and big changes. There are many opportunities for rebirth throughout the year. Every month is a rebirth. Every week. Every day. You can be reborn hour to hour if you want.
Every time you wake up, you are creatively reborn. Every day is a chance to try again. A chance to reinvent your identity or get rid of bad creative habits or fix a past mistake or start a new project or abandon one that’s holding you back.
And yes, every day is a new chance to fail at all of those things, too. But your past failures mean nothing once you’re reborn. The pain they caused may still be there, but that’s just your own ghost haunting you and reminding you that you can be better and learn from your failures.
But with every new day, those failures are gone. Right now, and every moment in the future, are all that exist anymore. Every day you choose who you get to be creatively from the moment you wake up. Every day you get to try again. You can try and fail. You can fail every day, over and over again, and still you’ll get another chance as long as you wake up tomorrow.
That opportunity to try, to be reborn and to go after the things that drive you creatively, will keep happening repeatedly for the rest of your life. There’s always another chance, but you never get the ones back that you didn’t take advantage of.
So use them.
