"Am I Good Enough? Yes! I Am!"

Taking positive risks. Moving outside your comfort zone. Imagining yourself in a space that you don't feel you belong in. Falling on your cute nose and having the confidence to take the ride again. Understanding that "failure" is actually important and that rather than running back to your rabbit hole on the couch, embrace it, learn from it, and soar with it. Kicking the "perfect" elephant out of your way and trying new things. These are all really really hard, especially for young girls!

“When girls fail, they tend to internalize it,” says Professor Francesca Borgonovi, author of the largest-ever study of girls and fear of failure. “But when boys fail, they are very comfortable attributing it to circumstances.”

This piece from Lean In Girls on "How to Help Girls Embrace Failure And Take Positive Risks" is a great guide on the ways we can create safe spaces that support and foster every girl's sense of self and confidence so she can know that it is OK to mess up, it is OK to try, to flip the thinking -"what could go right" if you try?

When we do not do this, girls hold onto that elephant-"I am not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough popular enough..." That elephant will literally stop them in their growth and their journey.

We need to empower every girl to know to her core that she can learn from not getting it "right", understand "failure" does not define her, and see this as an opportunity to know "stuff happens" and that she can! move forward and she can! follow her dreams and she can! fly. #thisgirlcanchangetheworld

"I've repeated the same words to myself many times now, through many climbs: 'Am I good enough? Yes I am.'"

~Michelle Obama