Getting Back to Happy: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Reality, and Turn Your Trials into Triumphs

by Marc Chernoff

So whenever you catch yourself waiting around for more confidence to magically arrive before you start working on the task in front of you, remind yourself of how confidence works, then force yourself to start before you feel ready. The confidence will come after you start—after you get comfortable with the discomfort of starting before you feel ready.

Don’t let your successes get to your head, and don’t let your failures get to your heart.

See rejection as protection from what’s not meant to be. Rejection doesn’t mean you aren’t good enough; it means the other person failed to notice what you have to offer.

It means you have more time to improve your endeavors—to build upon your ideas, to perfect your craft, and to indulge ...

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Trust that something better suited for you is on its way.