You Can Never Fail

Tania Gonzalez Ortega
Jun 22
3 min read

Let me ask you something that might rattle your programming just a little:

What if you could never fail?

What if wealth, success, and creative freedom weren’t things you had to earn by grinding, proving, perfecting…

But simply states of being you chose to live from?

We’ve all been taught the same script:

You need more time.
A better plan.
A perfect market.
Another certification.
A healed inner child.
A “worthy” story to finally be allowed to succeed.

But conditions are illusions.

You get to choose to identify with them—or not.To believe in them—or not.

No one is binding you to your circumstances except you.

And guess what? You get to choose which rules you live by… and which ones you burn.

So what is failure, really?

Isn’t it just judgment in disguise?

Failure only becomes failure when you decide the story ends there.When you accept it as your stopping point.

If we must talk about failure, let’s call it what it really is: A necessary part of success.

It’s the refinement fire.The truth-forger.The path to stripping away everything that isn’t aligned with the real you.

Every breakdown is a deeper becoming. Every rejection is an initiation. Every “stuck” moment is a threshold of power—if you choose to walk through it.

A story from my own life…

There was a time I believed I had no other choice but to run an in-home daycare.

As a single mom, I didn’t want to leave my infant in the care of strangers.So I found a creative solution—manifested a fully-operational home daycare, stepped right into it with zero experience. It was divine timing.

Until it wasn’t.

I became exhausted. Depleted. Unhappy.

Then life dropped a wake-up call: My grandmother died. My mother was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. And my two-year-old son shouted, “I WANT EVERYONE TO GO HOME!!!”

It broke the spell.

I had been living under the illusion that I had no choice. That I had to stay in a situation that was making both me and my child miserable.

So I chose differently.

I gave two weeks’ notice and shut it down. I had no idea what would come next—but I knew I couldn’t keep pretending.

And what happened?

Magic.

I found a beautiful new home. A nurturing preschool for my son. And a full-time position at a Waldorf School that felt aligned with my soul.

Not because I earned it. But because I got honest. Because I chose truth over fear. Because I let life rearrange itself in response to my decision.

So if you’re in a season that feels like it’s “not working,” I invite you to pause and ask:

What if this is working perfectly?
What if the Universe is trying to wake me up?
What if my wealth, my freedom, my desires are already here… waiting for me to stop resisting who I actually am?

You don’t need anyone’s permission—but here it is anyway:

✅ You are allowed to create from power, not proof

✅ You are allowed to lead without being “ready.”

✅ You are allowed to succeed without suffering.

You get to choose another path.

You are not your past.You are not your degree.You are not your bank account.You are not your current condition.

You are the cause.You are the wealth.You are the one.