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As my stepdad used to say to me when I was in my teens, “You can’t catch a fish if your hook isn’t in the water.”
So, when I say the privileged have it easier, we are all a little more privileged than somebody else. It doesn’t just go one way.
WALT DISNEY
When things seemed hopeless, I prayed for more faith in the process. How could we ever walk away and give up on something we had asked for?”
You’ve heard the idea: you don’t regret failing as much as you do not trying. As clichéd as that sounds, here’s the thing about clichés—they exist for a reason.
Everything comes back to discipline. You want to lose weight? You need to develop discipline when it comes to food and exercise.
Comparing yourself to others is the biggest trap in the world—and one that people fall into all the time.
You can only do you. Anything else is wasted time and energy.
Look three failures back instead of at your last one. Time and space give you more clarity on solutions. The further we’re removed from conflicts, the smarter we are about them. Working on failures from the past will help you with those in the present—without
Sometimes we also notice, when looking back, that the failure wasn’t as significant as we thought at the time.
is figuring out what you really want and taking very small steps toward that vision. If you do that, no matter where you end up, you won’t be a failure. I’m not saying you won’t feel like one from time to time—or a lot of times. But part of the formula is embracing failure not as an identity but as something that happens to all of us and successful individuals use to push them forward.
