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We humans are generally proud creatures who prefer admiration over ridicule. If you require finesse at every step of the way, life will dole out only the dullest rewards.

Certainly you have natural talents, areas in which you exhibit natural finesse. We all do. But it’s human nature to strive toward goals that challenge us, and natural finesse will only take you so far.

If it’s worth doing … it’s worth stumbling toward.

The key to a juicy life extravagantly lived is getting used to a few splats along the way. You’re unlikely to find a way forward and upward that’s completely devoid of dorkiness. Not if you crave magnificence.

So learn to blunder. Whether leaning into a smallish blunder or a giant one, set aside your pride, move forward, and let the laughter roll your way. Get used to it. Get into it. Know it’s coming. Learn to respect the flub up.

Practice is a form of reverence, even when you fail.

Each time you stumble, bumble, fall, or bomb, you gain points you can cash in at the brain bank. Think of finesse as your graduate degree in stumbling.

Remember dorkiness. It’s your saving grace.

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without loosing your enthusiasm.”
~ Winston Churchill

{ PEP TALKS deliver a bracing blast of Grace }

Flickr photo: Shipwreck of Point Reyes at Twilight, by Orin Optiglot

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