Mistake-phobia to Mistake-philia - A journey with map included.

I have two loyal soldiers (as Bill Plotkin writes about). One I call Mistakably Maybelline, and the other Little Miss Doubtfire, lovingly of course (yes, I name my patterns and make friends with them. :P)

The following is the map of my relationship with both of them in the context of my creative process:

Icons from the noun project and vecteezy

Mistakably Maybelline takes center stage right after I have done something at my edge, something new, scary, different. She loves to obsess and scrutinize my already completed work for errors, mistakes, and not good enoughs.She is amazingly good at it, and therefore succeeds.

I found the following in the last newsletter:

All hell broke loose in mansiland. It’s DEFCON 1, and Maybelline gets joined by her loyal twin Little Miss Doubtfire. Now, little Miss Doubtfire has a hobby; she loves staying in hyper loops of ‘I am the worst’; ‘I should not do anything’; ‘I can never get anything right’; ‘I should not even try,’ Ouch! right?

My statistics on staying in the hyperloop from the above mistake:

The good news is that earlier the hyperloop would last weeks, even months. Both Maybelline and Doubtfire would hang on for a while. Thanks to my dogged pursuit of self-mastery, this has changed. The Warrior Goddess shows up in her full glory and lovingly tames Maybelline & Doubtfire while thanking them for their loyalty.

Do I hope to stop making mistakes? Hell no, I love the drama of Mistakably Maybelline & Little Miss Doubtfire way too much. I especially get off on the magic of Warrior Goddess coming in and queening the heck out of my journey! #warriorgoddessing #iamenough #youcannotbetterawesomnnenss

This dance between Miss Maybelline, Miss Doubtfire, and the Warrior Goddess is my regular journey from mistake-phobia to mistake-philia.

Tell me about your loyal soldiers and how you handle them in the comments.