Daring Greatly

I read a post recently about the myriad of New Years resolutions being listed- all full of positive aspirations for what we hope to achieve in this new year. For most of us though, those resolutions quietly slip to one side amidst the day to day clutter of 'normal' life. What they had resolved to do was essentially not to worry so much about perfection or failing- but to accept that to succeed we have to also fail and to use those failures to keep moving forwards.
They used this quote as their inspiration

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

–Theodore Roosevelt

This is exactly how I want to go forwards this year- DARING GREATLY- and all the times I want to give up or I'm too afraid to try I am going to see this written large above my workspace and hope that I will have the courage to do so!