{"id":1743,"date":"2026-06-30T18:13:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:13:58","slug":"its-fun-to-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=1743","title":{"rendered":"It’s Fun to Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n

If you are in the Northern hemisphere, Happy Summer! Wherever you are, if you\u2019re not feeling happy, I understand. It\u2019s hard to be human even when the sun is shining.<\/p>\n

I realized yesterday that today is the last day of June, which meant I had only one day to write this Letter since committing last fall to publishing once a month.<\/p>\n

What to do?<\/p>\n

Dash something trivial off? Stay up all night writing? Let myself off the hook?<\/p>\n

I like the last option but it just so happens I have a wee story that won\u2019t take me that long to share.<\/p>\n

When I facilitate a workshop or retreat, I always include improv because it teaches listening, presence, and trust, and because laughter is good medicine.<\/p>\n

One of the \u201crules\u201d of improv is \u201cit\u2019s fun to fail.\u201d This means, if you make a mistake: fun! If you mess up: fun! If everything falls apart: fun!<\/p>\n

Last week, at a retreat I facilitated called \u201cSacred Silliness\u201d, I told a knock-knock joke. It went like this:<\/p>\n

\u201cKnock-Knock,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho\u2019s there?\u201d, the group asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod who?\u201d they asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have a last name,\u201d I answered.<\/p>\n

Crickets.<\/em><\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s a funny joke so I had been expecting a wave of laughter but there was total and complete silence. This joke bombed. Big time. I mean, like, it died a thousand deaths.<\/p>\n

It was mortifying.<\/p>\n

And \u2026<\/p>\n

In real time, I could model exactly what I was teaching that day. It\u2019s fun to fail! There\u2019s no shame in bombing. It\u2019s no big deal<\/em> to fail<\/em>. In fact, it\u2019s fun!<\/p>\n

Admittedly, I had to work it. Feelings of embarrassment and discomfort were fighting for emotional victory. But the opportunity to have a sense of humour about tanking was unmistakable. I could embrace it.<\/p>\n

So I did. Throughout the day, I repeatedly used my comic death moment as an example of \u201cit\u2019s fun to fail\u201d. You know what? Doing that got the laughs the joke didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

May our mistakes be opportunities to let go, laugh and have a little more fun. These days, we all need it.<\/p>\n

Love and blessings,<\/p>\n

Celia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dearest Readers, If you are in the Northern hemisphere, Happy Summer! Wherever you are, if you\u2019re not feeling happy, I understand. It\u2019s hard to be human even when the sun is shining. I realized yesterday that today is the last day of June, which meant I had only one day to write this Letter since…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}