"Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road."
-Jack Hyles
Living in a society that is largely raised on comparison, a fundamental human impulse, and one-upping the "competition", it can be hard to mentally return to the basics of celebrating each step of success along the way. What defines success, anyway?
To me, success means daring to leave your comfort zone. It means having the courage to start making moves toward your goals and mission, even though you don't have all of the answers. Success includes messing up and making mistakes, because those times are truly your best opportunities to learn for yourself, a better way of doing things.
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Success, to me, means not choosing to see yourself as a failure if you have to try a different plan, a different door, or even an entirely different course as you're uncovering and directing your path.
The truth is that success is rarely in the shape of a straight, narrow line, knowing all of the steps can be very limiting, and failure only carries a weight if you choose to prescribe it one.
Might I suggest that we give ourselves the opportunity to open up to life as the exploratory process that it is? Because being successful really has nothing to do with failure, it has to do with letting yourself begin.
"Successful people start."
-Evan Carmichael
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