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1. Welcome to the Field of Failure: Hey, creative. Do you ever find yourself on the sidelines
of your creative journey, thinking about taking action on your idea, your intuition, your passion, but then stopping yourself
before you even start. Do you find that
even though you have a creative tug on your heart, you keep letting
the possibility of failure prevent you from
moving forward at all. If so, then today's stop and the creative
wilderness is for you. Today we're visiting
the field of failure so you can learn how to stop letting the possibility
of failure overpower you. And instead own your power
in the face of failure, to use it as tool to move toward the success
and creative life. But you see, hey, I'm Liz, I'm an illustrator, educator and creative business
Coach in New Mexico. I own a creative
company and I've spent many years navigating the highs, the lows, and the unknowns
of the creative wilderness. That's why now I am so stoked to share my field notes and
tips with you throughout this series so that you can
gain more confidence on your creative journey and know that you're not
alone out there. I've failed so many times on my creative wilderness
journey and my business. But I've learned to see those
failures as normal, useful, and totally necessary lessons for me to get to
where I am today. So rather than let the field
of failure overpower me, I've learned how to see
it as an opportunity for growth and a key stepping
stone towards success. That's why in today's class, I'm sharing my main
tips for how to harness your power in
the face of failure. To move forward with
more confidence and clarity on your
creative path. So you ready to dive
in. Let's get started. By the way, if
you've taken one of the classes in this
creative wilderness series before and are already well acquainted with how it works
and with what you need. You can jump right ahead
to lesson number four.
2. Your Class Project: In this lesson,
we're chatting about your creative wilderness
class project. Your class project
for this portion of the creative wilderness
tip series is to print off the creative
wilderness field guide PDF and fill out the
field of failure section. In this section you will
find the following prompts. One, what does failure
feels like to me? To redefine failure
for yourself? And three, set measurable goals. You'll learn about these
prompts throughout this class so that you can fill them
out in your field guide. You can find the creative
wilderness field guide, LinkedIn, the projects and resources section of this class. You can find that
by navigating to the projects and resources tab. And going to the right-hand
side of the page where you'll see
resources and you'll see the creative
wilderness field guide linked and ready to download once you've finished filling out this class portion
of the field guide, go ahead and upload it to
the class projects section. You can do this by navigating
to the projects and resources tab and
clicking Create Project. Once you're here, you'll see a few options to
share your project. Go ahead and fill in the project title with
the name of this series. In the project description, you can add images from your completed field
guide by clicking image. This will bring you straight
to your files where you can select the images
you'd like to upload. You can also type additional
observations from your experience in
this portion of the creative wilderness
into this space. Once you've included all of
your images and observations, go ahead and go to the
cover image section to upload an image
for your project. Again, you'll be
brought to your files where you can select your image, click Open, and then place it just how you want
it in the crop space. Press Submit. Make sure that when
you're finished uploading everything,
you hit publish. That way it'll go to the
class project gallery. In the next lesson,
we'll go over the materials you'll
need for this class. I'll see you there.
3. Gather Your Materials: In this lesson, we're going over the materials you'll
need for this class. For this class, you'll need your creative wilderness
field guide, a pen, pencil, or writing utensil of choice, and a phone to take a photo of your completed field guide to upload for your class project. And that's it, super simple. In the next lesson,
we'll go over how to recognize when you're
approaching the field of failure so that you can
take action to stay in your creative power rather than letting failure
overpower you. I'll see you there.
4. Recognize the Field of Failure: In this lesson, I'm sharing the common signs that you're approaching the field of failure so that you can take
action to stay in your creative power and
keep moving forward. So the usual tendency when we're approaching failure is to run the other direction because failure is really
uncomfortable, right? I mean, it can feel
scary, embarrassing, full of shame,
exposed, vulnerable. All of our favorite feelings. Take a moment to think about
what failure feels like or has felt like on your personal creative
journey before. Think about the times where the potential of
failure was present. What it felt like when you were about to try something new, or maybe when you were
about to test something out or when you are about to launch
a new product or service. What did that possibility of failure feel like to
you in that moment? Take a minute to jot down your reflections in
your field guide. Your feelings around
failure may match some of these common clues
that often come up when we approach
the field of failure. So let's go over the four
main ways to recognize when you're about to arrive at this spot in the
creative wilderness. Number one, a focus
on the external. The first way to
recognize when you're approaching the
field of failure is when you notice yourself
becoming overly concerned and focused on external sources of what other people
might think of you. When we're approaching
the field of failure, It's pretty typical
for our minds to get less and less focused
on our creative path. And more and more
focused on what other people will think
of our creative path. This can often show up as questions like, what
if I look dumb? What are people going
to think of me? What if I get rejected
and what if I mess up this project and then I never get any other
projects after that. Any of those sound familiar. As we approach the
field of failure, our minds can spiral into this list of fearful
questions that are focused on external sources of other people's
opinions of us, rather than our
internal opinions of ourselves and
our creative work. By the way, if you want to learn how to navigate those
fearful thoughts, you can visit the
florist of fear, which you can find by going to my profile page and navigating to the creative
wilderness section. So this focus on other
people's opinions takes you out of the
internal connection with your intuition and
your creative path and can pop you into decision
fatigue and inaction. It can distract you from
the path that you're on and the excitement, growth, and discovery that
can come with that path. This focus on external opinions slowly begins to chip away
at your trust in yourself, your creative intuition,
and your creative journey. When you find yourself,
Andrew brain, hyper-focused on what others
are going to think of. You, keep an eye out because the field of
failure is likely fast approaching to
the desire to hide. The second way to recognize when you're approaching
the field of failure is the desire
to run and hide. As I mentioned earlier, it's incredibly common to see
the possibility of failure and run the other direction all the way back into
the cave of hiding, running and hiding on
your creative journey can look like not sharing
your creative voice, not sharing your art, not sharing your business idea. All because of those fears are
on failure like rejection, looking dumb, and
being made fun of. So if you feel a strong desire to run back into
the cave of hiding, be aware that you're likely about to enter the
field of failure. Three, procrastination. The third way that you can recognize when you're
approaching the field of failure is the feeling
of procrastination. You may feel like you're putting off your drawing practice, or maybe you're
avoiding painting or you're not taking
action on your idea. But instead you're pushing it away and trying to
ignore it because the prospect of failure and
the fears that accompany it, or stopping you in your
tracks for feeling shame. The fourth way that you can recognize when
you're approaching the field of failure is
the feeling of shame. Shame feels pretty
terrible, right? I mean, it feels embarrassing,
it feels vulnerable. It feels like a personal flaw rather than an
objective mistake. I really loved the way
Bernie Brown defined shame. She says Shame is quotes and intensely painful
feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of
love and belonging. Something we've
experienced, done or failed to do makes us
unworthy of connection. In quote, with shame, we take the thing we
failed at and events, a moment and action, and we turn that into a definition of ourselves
being a failure. We internalize the
failure and make it mean something about
us as a human being. Rather than just
being insightful, neutral information
about the project or action at which we failed. So all of those are
signs that you're approaching the
field of failure. And those signs could easily
be described as discomfort. That discomfort is the reason so many creatives
myself included, try to avoid failure. And I am not going to
sit here and say that even after going through
the field of failure, many, many times on my creative
wilderness journey, that I no longer fear failure or that I no longer
try to avoid it, or that I no longer get
uncomfortable by it. Failures still shows up and it's still feels
uncomfortable. But I've learned how
to better work with failure and see it as a
necessary step towards success. I've learned to embrace
it as much as I can. And I want to encourage
you to do the same thing. Because when we try
to avoid failure, what we actually do
is we end up avoiding our creative path or Creative Calling and our
creative journey as a whole. That in my opinion, is the ultimate form of failure to not live out that
creative call that tugs on your heart and to not
express your creativity fully and authentically in
this beautiful lifetime. See failure and creativity. They go hand in hand. One cannot exist
without the other. Creativity is processed and
processes full of failure, and that failure leads
to learning and growth. By choosing the creative path, you are also choosing
to encounter failure, but that doesn't
make it a bad thing. And that definitely doesn't mean that you won't experience
success as well. In fact, failure is the stepping stone to
your version of success. Failure isn't
something to avoid, It's something to
dive deeper into. Today I'm sharing my
main tips for you to move through the
discomfort of the field of failure to normalize it on your creative journey
and use it as a tool to gain clarity for your next steps forward in
the creative wilderness. In the next lesson, I'm sharing
the first tip to navigate the field of failure so you can move forward with
more knowledge, more clarity, and more confidence on your creative
wilderness journey. I'll see you there.
5. Make Failure a Verb: In this lesson, I'm sharing the first tip to move through
the field of failure. The first tip is to make failure of verb
instead of a noun. So when you begin to
feel the inklings of shame encroaching
on your journey. The embarrassments, the desire to hide yourself
and your creative work, the internalizing
of your failure. When you start to feel
this shame approaching, transform your failure
from a noun into a verb. See a lot of times the
mentality that we can get into our ideas that failing
means I'm bad at this. I'm bad at illustrating. I'm bad at teaching. Failing means I'm not good. Failing means I'm not capable. Failure can quickly turn
us against ourselves, then put us into inaction. So rather than saying, I am a failure, say I failed, separating the failure
from your identity will help you maintain
your sense of ownership, autonomy, and humanity on
your creative journey. When you reframe
failure from what you are into what you did, then you can learn from
the experience, make new, better informed choices, and take action forward
with clarity. You are not the failure. The failure is
separate from you. The failure is a thing out
there and you are here. The field of failure
is something we are visiting and experiencing
for a moment, but we are not it. You are not your failure. Separating and teasing that out creates more space between us and the failure to
look at it more objectively and
see it as a verb. It's something we do, but
it's not something we are. The next lesson I'm sharing the second tip to move
through the field of failure. I'll see you there.
6. Reframe Failure: In this lesson, I'm sharing the second tip to move
through the field of failure. The second tip is to create
reframes around failure. I know, I know I talk
about reframes a lot in this creative
wilderness series. But that is just
because they are one of the simplest and
most powerful tools to implement to
transform your mindset, reclaim your power, and take forward action
on your journey. So let's go over some
simple reframes that you can implement to move
through the field of failure. One, fail forward.
When you fail, you're not falling,
you're moving forward. So when you think about
failing as failing forward on your journey than
the more often you fail, the more forward
traction you can gain because failing
is learning. So fail forward, gather
information, learn from it, and keep moving to failure
is figuring things out. Three, Failing means I am an active participant in
the creative journey. So I personally think that
being an active participant in your creative journey is in
itself a sign of success. We're going to dig
more into this tip shortly on how to
define failure for yourself so that it's
not dependent on other people's definitions
or expectations. For failing means
I'm trying five, failing means I'm learning. By failing, I'm
gathering information. Seven, by failing, I'm growing. And so with this one, I like
to think about the fact that growth is typically
uncomfortable, right? I mean, it's called Growing
Pains for a reason. You think about a seed
being planted and then growing into a plants or food like breaking through that shell is probably not
the most comfortable thing. When you're a kid and your
muscles and your bones are growing, it's uncomfortable. And when we grow emotionally and spiritually and
creatively as adults, that's uncomfortable because
it's breaking this out of an old shell in old way of being an old definition
of who we are. And that can be terrifying. So growing is uncomfortable because we're pushed
up against our edges. And as I've mentioned before, that is so much of the creative wilderness is just being right up
against your edges. Failing is growing and
that is uncomfortable. Again, the discomfort
doesn't go away fully. It's just an acceptance
that it's part of the feeling of failing
and that's normal. And even though
it's uncomfortable, I often like to ask myself, in those moments of standing
in the field of failure, would I rather be growing and failing and be
uncomfortable in that way? Or would I rather
avoid failure and growth and become stagnant and
uncomfortable in that way. Because if I'm stagnant,
I'm not growing, I'm not moving forward, I'm not expanding, I'm not exploring. I'm not experiencing
the creative wilderness to its fullest potential. So I'm not really fully alive
and I'm not fully in it. And I personally, I want an all in life and an all-in journey. I want an all-in creative practice and an
all-in creative business. I want an all-in creative life. And my guess is that if you're here in the wilderness with me, you feel the same. So if I am stagnant,
I'm not all in. Instead, stagnancy means I'm always on the edge of something, always considering
it and fearing it, rather than actively
participating in it. So both options, failing and
stagnancy are uncomfortable. So which discomfort do
you want to choose? Are you choosing the
discomfort of not growing and not moving forward? Or are you choosing the
discomfort of growing and expanding and failing and
learning and moving forward? When I ask myself that I
choose growing and failing, even though it can
feel harder at times. But I think in the long run, the stagnancy would feel harder because I'd
feel like I was cheating myself rather than
actively participating. So failing is growing and
that's a really good thing. Okay, so those are
just some reframes that you can use to start to see failure as something
really beneficial, even with its discomfort
and neighborliness. You can recognize that
it's a totally normal stop on your creative
wilderness journey and reframe it as a tool for
yourself to move forward with more clarity and
confidence on your path. In the next lesson, I'm
sharing the third tip to move through the field of
failure. I'll see you there.
7. Redefine Failure: In this lesson, I'm
sharing the third tip to move through the
field of failure. The third tip is to redefine
failure for yourself. So as I mentioned earlier, when we're approaching
the field of failure, it can often show up as our brains shifting out
of that internal focus on our creative intuition and
into a really heavy focus on external opinions of what other people are
going to think of us. In that moment, we put our definition of failure into
the hands of other people. We give our ownership and
power over failure away. Instead of giving
your creative power away to the opinions of others. How can you redefine failure for yourself and make it specific
to you and your journey. Take a moment and your
field guide to reflect and write down your
answer to this question. What is my definition
of failure? So as an example for me, my definition of
failure is not what presents itself as failure at first glance on the surface, failure to meet isn't actually embarrassment or messing
up or being judged. Failure to meet isn't having a product flop or an
idea not pan out. Even though all of
these can feel really uncomfortable and
frustrating and like failure in the moment. When I dig deeper, they are not truly my definition of failure. True failure to me
specifically means not trying, not experimenting, and not trusting my creative
intuition and ideas. Failing to me is sitting
on the sidelines of my creative wilderness journey rather than actively
participating in it. So take a moment to redefine what failure means
to you personally. That way when you're
feeling things that look like failure in the moment, such as messing
up, embarrassment, shame, and concerned with what other people might
think of view. You can come back to your
specific personal redefinition of failure and use that as a litmus test to gauge
whether the moment at hand is true failure
or perceived failure. When you have your personal
definition of failure, you can remain in
your power when you enter the field
of failure to take intentional and form steps forward on your creative
wilderness track. In the next lesson, I'm
sharing the fourth tip to move through the field of
failure. I'll see you there.
8. Embrace the Mess: In this lesson, I'm sharing the fourth tip to move
through the field of failure. The fourth tip is to
embrace the mess. Failure can get really
entangled and intertwined with the perceived ideal
of perfectionism and creativity and in the
creative wilderness. And perfectionism is a
dangerous place to be. It shows up in my
creative journey personally as the
desire to be well, perfect and get it
right on the first try. Perfectionism can show up as me wanting everything to
be really streamlined, black and white, a to
be crisp and clear. But the creative
wilderness journey doesn't really work
that way, does it? I mean, similar to failure, the focus on
perfectionism can stop me and maybe U2 in our tracks. So instead of letting
perfectionism have that power and realizing that there's no
perfect clean way to fail, come back to the fact that failure is just
inherently messy. Failure is intrinsic to the creative process and the
creative process is messy. This is just like painting or ceramics or the art
process as a whole. It's messy. It's messy materials. It's messy to figure
out techniques. It's messy to go
through the journey of creating art from
start to finish. So to embrace the mess, sometimes for a designated
amount of time, I'll ask, how many times can
I fail this season, or how many times can
I fail this week? This can just be a
really fun challenge to move out of the intention
of getting everything perfect and right and into the intention of
failing in order to learn, grow, and take forward action. There's less pressure and more
playful energy to release that unachievable fake
goal of perfection. And instead embrace
the mess to keep moving forward with
beautiful, Imperfect action. In the next lesson, I'm sharing the fifth tip to move through
the field of failure. I'll see you there.
9. Set Measureable Goals: In this lesson, I'm
sharing the fifth tip to move through the
field of failure. The fifth tip is to
set quantifiable, measurable goals when you are launching a new product or
creating a new collection, or trying out a new idea. Entering into that
process without a clear, quantifiable
direction or end goal can make failure feel
really confusing. So by setting tangible
quantifiable goals, you are creating a way to
measure your learning, your growth, and your failure. When you create tangible goals, they can act as a
measuring stick to ask yourself, did I reach my goal? What did and didn't feel good in the process towards my goal, what worked and
what didn't work. And how can I learn
from this and move forward with more
confidence and knowledge? So let's say, for example, that you're launching
a new product, a simple quantitative
goal you can set for this is the number of
products you'd like to sell. Let's say you're launching in illustrated calendar,
for example. Create a quantitative
goal by asking how many calendars do I
want to sell this quarter? Then create a qualitative goal? Ask yourself, how
do I want people to feel when they're
interacting with me? Marketing this calendar. How do I want to feel in this season of marketing,
this calendar? How much space do I
want in my schedule? Do I want to go all in and
be working all the time? Alright, maybe it's
a season for that. Or do I want more
spaciousness to have the time to
spend with my family? Then you can use
the quantitative and qualitative goals to measure how well you're meeting those tangible
numbers and feelings. You can check in with
yourself to see if your sales are on track and if you're meeting
how you want to feel on the way to
that sales goal. For example, if you
set the goal to sell 75 calendars and you sell 80, amazing, you can
directly see that you met and exceeded your
quantitative goals. But if you hadn't set this tangible goal and
you sold AT calendars, you may feel like you failed
because you didn't sell a 100 or 120 or 150 calendars. So having the tangible, quantitative and
qualitative goals can really help you to measure
if you are actually failing or if it's just
perceived failure because you didn't have those goals to cross-check against
in the first place. So setting quantitative
and qualitative goals can act as a litmus test to
measure am I actually failing or am I just
perceiving that I'm failing because I don't have a tangible goal to
measure against. Take a moment in your
field guide to set both qualitative and
quantitative goals for your next project. Once you've done that, meet me in the next lesson
where I'm sharing the sixth and final tip to move through the
field of failure. I'll see you there.
10. Release the Outcome: In this lesson, I'm sharing the sixth and final tip to move through the
field of failure. The sixth tip is to
release the outcome. Now I know I've mentioned this before on the creative
wilderness journey. And that's because it's
such a good reminder that the journey is not
a to B, it's not linear. We never get there. We're always right here. And that doesn't mean
we're not making progress. It just means that there is an illusion and we're
always bear by being here. Am I getting too deep? Anyway? The outcome, which is
really the present moment, can often look better
than we can ever imagine when we release
our rigid expectations, we think it should look like. So when we are in the
field of failure, our perception of failure is
often present because it's tied to a specific outcome
that we have set in our heads. When we want to have the
outcome of selling, say, 75 calendars like we
established in the last lesson. If we fall short of that, we may feel that we failed. If we exceed that, we may
feel that we've succeeded, the attachment to
that specific outcome starts to define our
sense of failure. So it becomes this
really beautiful dance between setting goals
while also releasing rigid attachment to
those strict goals as the only possible
outcome to define failure or success
on your journey. For example, what if you
don't hit the sales goal of selling 75 calendars
during that quarter. But at the start of
the next quarter, a sharp contacts you because they saw your
calendar marketed on Instagram and they want to start a wholesale account with you for other products
that you sell. You didn't predict
that in your goal. And yet it could
lead you to exceed your initial sales goal in a
way that you didn't expect. So did you actually fail
on your sales goal of 75? Calendar's? Not if you have openness around that being the only
final outcome. When you set the goal and
then release the outcome, you can create so much
more spaciousness around how things
should be or look. You can be open to what
can come through and even more magnificent ways
than you initially imagined. Even though our creative
wilderness journey doesn't always lead us to
the outcomes we expect. It leads us to the outcome that we need to take the next step forward and live out our unique,
authentic creative path. These outcomes that
lead us forward, or just like a hike
through the wilderness. Maybe you don't have
a map, but instead, you only have a compass
and you can find a clue in nature like animal tracks that lead you to the next
portion of your journey, the next step, the next
part of the trail. That's what this creative wilderness journey is all about. It's picking up and following
the clues along the way. Failure is not only leading
you to those clues, failure is those clues. Failure is the tracks. Release attachment to the
outcome and learn from the unexpected results that can land when you have openness
to alternative possibilities. In the next lesson, I'm sharing a personal example of how I've experienced the
field of failure in my creative wilderness
journey and business. So you can see how normal
and essential this stop is out here in the creative wilderness.
I'll see you there.
11. Learn from a Personal Example: In this lesson, I'm sharing a personal example of how I've experienced the field of failure
in my creative business. To inspire you and show you that failure is totally
normal out here. And how much time do you have? Because I could list so many
failures because they're just that normal on the creative business and
creative wilderness journey. But I'll save you
some time and just share two main examples
with you today. I want to preface this by saying that the
examples that I'm about to share could be
perceived as failures, but are actually, I think, just incredible
learning opportunities to get to where I am now. Okay, so the first example of the field of failure in my
creative business journey. When I started this business, it was completely different
than what I'm doing now. And welcome to entrepreneurship. When I started my
business in 2017, I was planning to teach
kids about art and food. So I was actually teaching in the public school system
as an independent artist. I was traveling around to different schools and
Santa Fe, New Mexico, going into the classroom teaching about
local agriculture, which I was in that
industry at that time. I was using art to
teach about that topic. I thought that's what
I was going to do. I thought I wanted to grow that into this business
where I traveled further out into the
broader state of New Mexico as a mobile
arts and Ecology Center, rooted and food education,
super cool idea. So that was the plan for my
business when I started, which again, beautiful idea. But what I realized
through taking action on that idea by teaching kids in schools was that personally, for me, I don't really
like teaching kids. The only way I could
figure that out was to take action and
to try it, right? So that could be perceived as a failure because I
had this big idea, I tried it and now I'm no
longer doing that work instead. Now I do illustration, one-to-one creative business
coaching and online classes. So it's very, very different. And I'm not traveling around to different schools and
I'm not teaching kids. Instead, I have set
up my business to be fully mobile to allow me to work with creative entrepreneurs and businesses from anywhere,
which is awesome. And so that could be perceived
as a failure in one light. Because what I started with is not what I've ended up with. Which again, by the way, is a totally natural
part of business that you grow and evolve and
change and shift over time. But in another light, this can
be seen as a huge success, which is how I see it because
that experience gave me the necessary information I needed to get to where I am now. The only way I could get here
and feel solid about what I truly enjoy doing and what
I feel like my purpose is, and how I can serve creatives
to the best of my ability, was to take action, to figure out what did
and didn't feel right, what did and didn't
work and what did and didn't serve people in the
best way that I could. So that's just one area in my business that could be
perceived as a failure. But it was actually
immense growth information in that sense, success. Another perceived
failure in my business was ordering too much
inventory too many times. So the number of times
this happened, I mean, y'all, I was never
a fan of inventory, are shipping things
directly from my studio. I always loved print
on-demand way more, but I kept trying to make inventory work because
there was some part of me that felt like
that was what I was supposed to do as an artist. I would look around at other
creative business owners who are keeping inventory and
loving it and shipping it. And I was like, Oh, that's
what I'm supposed to do. Even though that's
not what I loved. I loved print
on-demand way more for the lifestyle and
business that I wanted. So I kept getting this lesson. And the final
inventory failure or less than was in 2020
when I did a launch of some screen printed
tea towels that I absolutely adored and
ordered way too many of. I mean, I still have
some in stock right now as I'm making this class. So my goal was to sell
out that Christmas, but even after market research, I ordered too many for
too little demand. So that was not only a
lesson that I needed to better calculate and
do more market research, but also a final
confirmation that I really don't like
housing inventory. After that lesson, which had presented itself
many times before, I decided to listen and stop offering physical
inventory from my studio. That was it. Now I just do print on demand for my products and it feels so much better for me and my business and my
desired lifestyle. And side-note that
might look totally different for you and
your creative business. And that's awesome. Tune
into the needs that you have in your creative business has and the desires that
you both have as well. So I could finally
make that shift because I tried and failed, which actually
means I learned and embodied what I don't
want in my business. How to do better customer
research and implement what I do want and feels aligned to meet and
my creative business. So once again, that
could be seen as a failure that I didn't
sell out of tea towels. But instead I see it as
immense growth, clarity, learning, and redirection in my business to be more aligned. So you can see how
these could all be labeled as failures. But instead we can
look at them and ask, what am I learning? What new information do I have? What do I know now that
I've done it before? And what is this
failure teaching me? So those are just a couple of many personal
examples to show you that failure is totally
normal out here. Doesn't mean that
you are a failure or that you're not cut out
for the creative path, or that you're not cut out
to run a creative business. It just shows you what works, what doesn't work, and
how you can improve. Failure is just information. And I've said it before, and I'll say it again and again. Failure is a stepping
stone to your success. So if you're in the field of failure on your creative
journey right now, amazing your ten steps further than you were
before you got here. Implement the tips from
this class and keep going. You've totally got this. In the next lesson,
you're going to fill out your field guide and
publish your class project. I'll see you there.
12. Publish Your Class Project: In this lesson,
are chatting about publishing your class project. So once you've completed this section of the
creative wilderness, go ahead and take a photo
of your completed field of failure portion of the creative
wilderness Field Guide. Then you can upload
that photo to the class project
section of this class. Remember that you can upload your class projects by going to the projects and
resources tab and clicking the Create
Project button. Once you've uploaded your photo, be sure to hit Publish. Also be sure to check
out other class projects from your fellow creatives
in the project gallery. We're all out here in the
creative wilderness together, so let's show support for
each other's journeys. Lastly, be sure
to let me know in the discussion section
what tip you're implementing to move
through the field of failure and forward on your
creative wilderness journey. In the next lesson, I'm
sharing the next stop will encounter together out here
in the creative wilderness. I'll see you there.
13. Thank You & Next Steps: Thank you so much
for tuning into this class and then navigate the creative vote in a series. I hope you're feeling
more equipped, confident, and totally stoked to keep trekking through the
wilderness together. I know that the field of
failure can feel uncomfortable, scary, it's just really not fun. But remember that
failing means you're actively participating in
your creative journey. You're learning, you're growing, and you're moving
forward on your path. You've got this. In the next class
in this series, we are visiting the bog of burnout where I'll share
my tips for how to prevent burnout before it starts and how to get yourself
out of burnout once you've reached it
on your creative wilderness journey so that you can move forward with
more energy and stamina. In the meantime, if you want continued encouragement
for your creative path, you can download a
free pep talk that I recorded just for
you to listen to anytime you need to
get pumped up and competent about your next steps forward on your
creative journey. You can download
that at Prints and Plants.com slash pep talk. Lastly, be sure to follow me
here on Skillshare to stay up-to-date on new classes by
hitting that follow button. And come hang out with me on Instagram app Prints and Plants. Stay wild, stay creative.
And I'll see you soon. In the next lesson,
you're going to feel up. For this class. You'll need your
Liz Brindley, Illustrator, Runner, Nature Nerd
