Have you ever discovered that your zipper is down and wondered how long you had been parading around in this condition and why no one informed you?

They may have been too embarrassed.

The solution is to let you be embarrassed.

How do you navigate these sensitive situations? I published a blog with a severely misspelled title. It stayed that way for at least a week. I spelled "wealth" as "welath."no one said anything – or noticed – OR did they? I was embarrassed – but not much.

I misspell all the time, but usually not in a title.

Should someone have said something or would that have been nit picky?

I love the movie and story from "The Pursuit of Happiness."

But have I really seen "The Pursuit of Happiness?"

Nope – a different movie. It is spelled HAPPYness – just like a recurring scene from the movie where Chris Gardner is repeatedly annoyed at the misspelling on a wall in his neighborhood.

It is funny how little things keep us from focusing on the pursuit of the BIG things.

Ultimately, that did not stop Chris Gardner. See his story if you are discouraged, thinking of giving up, or devastated by a zipper down after being in public for hours. Few people have had to overcome the challenges he faced on the road to success, but everyone has their own.

You have had a brilliant day, spoken to many people, overcome shyness or feelings of inadequacy. You are about to settle into the rest of self-congratulatory bliss and you notice that your zipper is down. Who knows how long!?

Or, you have committed some major blunder in pronouncing fallacy as fact, or misspelling a key word or something else that makes you feel silly.

Whether you are pursuing wealth or welath, the pursuit is the it of it and it will be hampered if you major on the minor distractions or allow perfectionism to become an excuse for inaction.

Wealth and welath are not the full measure of your success. Success is deeper and you are going to make a lot of blunders along the way.

The conditions were never just right for Chris Gardner to pursue his goals and they will never be just right for you – so get started now! There is no better time.

While we are at it, let's embrace a new philosophy of WELATH.

So, I say, "Lean into the error and create something new."

Pursue WELATH

W – Welcome life with all its imperfections, embarrassing moments, and hardships because there will be more joys that sorrows if you will pursue them and embrace them.

E – Elevate others along the way and build them up rather than tearing them down.

L – Live, Laugh, Love with expectancy, wonder, and authenticity.

A – Accept Abundance as the true measure of wealth. Abundance means that there is more than absolutely necessary for mere survival. Abundance is accepting grace as a lifestyle and as n endless supply from a generous God to children He loves. It also means that we appreciate what we receive and receive it with giddy joy.

T -Take the steps necessary to move incrementally toward your goals of wealth or welath. Just like it doesn't ultimately matter if you mess up the letter order, there may be some play ion the order in which you take these steps, but take them and do not expect to arrive quickly. "Get rich quick" almost always implies gimmickry. The studies i am doing loosely, informally, and occasionally from Proverbs on wealth and work all point to this reality. you could also call it TIME. Take Time!

H – Hope and keep hoping. Never surrender your possibility view of things to come. That which is not can be. Persevere with hope!