Joshua N'Gon: Last Prince of Alkebulahn.
Here's the counterintuitive truth: Your most spectacular failures are your most powerful teachers. Not in some Instagram quote kind of way.
I mean deeply, fundamentally transformative, like how a star has to completely destroy itself to create the elements that form new worlds.
My Jamaican Mom used to say, "Yuh affi bruk it, fi mek it bend."
For my non-Patois speakers, 'you have to break it to make it bend'. In other words, growth requires breaking, and
breaking requires courage.
Intention is your compass. Wisdom is your map. Falling is just the terrain you're navigating.
I've watched too many brilliant people – writers, engineers, dreamers – get paralysed by the fear of falling. They build these elaborate mental fortresses to protect themselves from potential failure. But here's the
thing about fortresses: they're great at keeping danger out. They're terrible at letting possibility in.
In my speculative worlds, characters who refuse to adapt get deleted, literally, but in our world, we have a more subtle form of deletion – we slowly fade, compromise, and shrink. We stop trying. We stop believing.
Not today. Not on
my watch.
Rising with intention means understanding that your fall is not your final draft. It's just research. It's data. It's the raw material for your next breakthrough. Every time you fall, you collect intelligence about yourself, your dreams, and your potential.
Think about nature. Trees don't
apologise for losing leaves. Oceans don't feel shame when waves recede. They understand something profound: Cycles are not failures. They're movements. Transformations.
So here's my challenge to you this week: Find your fall. Not the dramatic, world-ending kind. The small, uncomfortable, "oh wow, that didn't go how I planned" kind. Take a look at it. Really look. What wisdom is hiding in those
cracks? What seed of possibility is waiting to break open?
Your fall is not your story's ending. It's just turning the page.
Rise with intention. Fall with wisdom. Repeat.
Until next week, keep breaking. Keep growing.
Peace, love and power.
