Permission to Fail

I'm just so mad at myself!   I have been allowing my perfection and fear of failure to paralyze me into inaction for way too long!  And - I'm not alone, am I?  There is so much I want to do in life - most of it craft related!  :)
Why does this paralysis happen?  Trust me - I have thought about this long and hard (while paralyzed into inaction!)  Seems to me that at least part of it is learned behavior.  My poor father, retired nuclear engineer (and genius), gets so frazzled and starts to sweat over such seemingly minor things.  Here is a man that can't even answer the telephone without yelling out of some sort of anxious frustration.  So, I feel certain that my sisters and I come by it honestly.  Hopefully, it gets proportionally less by generation.  My son doesn't seem to have this onerous trait at all.  Must be nice!
But still - I am in my mid 40's.  You would think that I would be confident enough in my own skin by now to be past it.  We have always heard that you 'stop caring' as you get older.  I'm ready!
So anyway, today is the day we start doing something about it!  I christen this blog in honor of my sisters and all of those out there (we aren't alone, are we?) that just need permission to fail in order to move forward.
Here we go!!!