Success and failure are not opposites. It’s possible to succeed while failing and it’s possible to fail hard while succeeding. This may sound stupid, but trust me, it isn’t.
Think it through, sometimes the best outcome is to fail. If the only way to kill a bad idea is to have it fail then that can be a success.
Likewise, sometimes success leads to failure through no fault of your own. You can do everything right, absolutely everything, but the outcome falls through because of the actions of others. No amount of your own success could prevent the failure.
Then there are the days when nothing is going right and all you can do is to continue to keep everything from falling down. All you can do is just barely prevent the failures from happening. All you can do is succeed at not failing. On those days, that’s as successful as anything and likely something to still be proud of.
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