0:00 The man who invented the Post-it Note was trying to create the world’s strongest glue.0:07 He failed.0:08 Completely.0:09 What he made was a weak, barely-there adhesive that nobody at his company, 3M, wanted for years.0:17 It was a solution without a problem — an imperfection.0:22 In our last episode, we talked about finding joy with grounded affirmations for your real life.0:30 Today, we find the strength in what feels like the opposite.0:36 Not the perfect moments, but the failures.0:39 The 'wrong' answers that turn out to be the key.0:44 Because you’re not trying to build a life without flaws.0:49 You’re trying to build a resilient one.0:52 A creative one.0:53 And resilience isn’t about never breaking.0:57 It's about how you put the pieces back together.1:01 Sometimes with gold, like the Japanese art of Kintsugi.1:06 And sometimes...1:08 with a weak adhesive that ends up changing the world.1:12 So this morning, before you step into the day, let's try a different kind of affirmation.1:20 Not about being perfect or flawless.1:23 But about being whole.1:25 Let these land.1:26 Say them with me if you want, or just let them wash over you.1:32 This first one is for when you're in the thick of it.1:37 When the project is a mess, the plan is in chaos, and you feel like you're getting it all wrong.1:45 My work-in-progress is not a sign of failure.1:49 The mess is proof that I am building something.1:53 I honor the middle, the tangled parts, the ‘I don’t know yet’ stage.1:59 This is where the REAL work happens.2:02 Okay.2:03 This next one is for when you feel the pressure to have always known the answer.2:10 To be consistent.2:11 To defend a version of yourself that you've already outgrown.2:17 I have permission to outgrow the person I was yesterday.2:22 Changing my mind is not a weakness; it is evidence that I am listening, learning, and evolving.2:30 I release the need to be consistent for the sake of appearances.2:36 Here's the one for the perfectionist in you.2:39 The part that whispers, 'It's not ready.2:43 Just one more tweak.' The part that keeps you from starting at all.2:49 Done is a beautiful word.2:51 'Good enough' can launch a dream.2:54 I will not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.2:58 Today, I celebrate completion, not just perfection.3:03 This version is worthy of existing in the world.3:07 This one might be harder.3:09 It's about the past.3:11 The mistakes you carry.3:13 The wounds that you think you need to hide.3:17 My scars — the ones you can see and the ones you can't — are not marks of shame.3:24 They are maps of where I have been and proof that I survived.3:29 They show that I have healed.3:32 I will wear my history with quiet strength, not hide it.3:37 And finally.3:38 For every time you felt you wasted time.3:41 Took a dead-end job, a wrong turn in a relationship, a path that led nowhere.3:48 There are no wrong turns, only detours with unexpected views.3:54 The path I thought was a mistake gave me a skill I didn't know I needed, or a perspective I couldn't have gotten any other way.4:05 I trust that all my steps, even the sideways ones, are leading me FORWARD.4:11 That's it.4:12 That's the work for today.4:14 To stop trying to present a polished, finished, perfect version of yourself to the world.4:22 You think your value is in being a smooth, flawless, marble statue.4:28 It's not.4:29 You are a geode.4:30 The outside is rough, unassuming, maybe even a little boring.4:36 But the breaks?4:37 The cracks?4:38 The moments you thought you were falling apart?4:42 That’s where the crystals grow.4:45 That’s where the light gets in.4:48 So don't spend your day trying to buff out the scratches.4:53 Go find a new way to crack open.
