When I started my first business, my partner and I started what we called our Wall of Shame. We'd look back on that wall of not-so-great decisions and have a good laugh and then think, 'Wow, look at how far we've come.'

xoxo,

Sukey

Thomas Edison failed a thousand times before he invented the lightbulb. "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" a reporter asked. "I didn’t fail 1,000 times," Edison responded. "The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."

Living in a world full of risk and failure, it's inevitable that we'll come face-to-face with it; it's what we learn from confronting failure that matters most, which is why we love Tina Seelig's introduction of the idea on the failure resume.

• What is it? A failure resume is like any other resume, only this one lists your failures—both personal and professional—and the lessons you've learned from each experience.
• Why do it? By seeing our failures written down, we can view it from a different perspective and can begin to extract the important lessons learned from them.
• How to do it? Start with the five biggest setbacks in your life and see what came out of them. Be creative! It doesn't matter how you write it, just as long as you do it!