I’m pretty sure I’ll never be famous.

I may never accomplish anything of any great significance. It’s very possible that my best days are behind me.

The year ahead, I am quite certain, will be filled with self-doubt, money struggles, lost opportunities and distractions powerful enough to knock me off my game.

I’m okay with all of that.

Because there is one thing I dearly look forward to.

Failure.

Many failures.

In fact, I want to embrace failure like never before.

I will be trying every idea I have ever wanted to put to the test. Will they all fail? It’s very possible.

But that’s really not the point.

The point is that through it all, I will become inextricably more experienced than I was last year.

I will become phenomenally smarter.

I will be able to say that I am far more experienced.

Each failure will lead me down a path I had not thought about before, and those new pathways, or at least one of them, is bound to be successful. Now that’s an exciting thought!

I will meet more people, and this will enrich my life.

I will be authentically busy, rather than just “using up time.”

I will, in my pursuit of failure, attract new opportunities, new people and new ways of thinking.

Failure is good.

Failure will empower me, motivate me, humble me and lead me.

I didn’t fail enough last year.

And that was a big failure (but only one).

So yes, I do look forward to 2017 being a great year of failure.

Hey, how about you?