1,000 False Starts — Why you can afford to fail endlessly and still do The Thing

David Hewlett
5 min readJun 1, 2024

Nobody gets it right all the time. Cut yourself some slack.

Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash.

Have you ever started A Thing only to find yourself derailed as fast as you began?

Maybe you joined a gym as your resolution for the new year and two weeks into questing for a sweet beach bod you found yourself back on the couch eating an entire bag of BBQ-flavored chips and bingeing Gilmore Girls.

Or perhaps you determined to sit down and spend 30 minutes every day expressing your art only to find after the first month that things were too damn busy to squeeze in that kind of creative pursuit.

Eating healthier, getting up early, shining brightly at work, catching up with old friends, getting into a new hobby, sitting down to write, teaching your children something you wish you had grown up experiencing, planning out a fun vacation, sharpening that skill you’ve been sitting on…we all have things we want to kickstart which haven’t quite gotten the air they need to sail into the skies of our life. To be honest, maybe we feel more like the Wright Brothers than we are comfortable with; repeated takeoffs full of promise for what we want which never seem to make it far enough off the ground.

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David Hewlett
David Hewlett

Written by David Hewlett

Storyteller, adventurer, and trampoline enthusiast who loves to ask and discover answers to the question: How can I craft the best story possible with my life?

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