An unrealized goal, or an incomplete vision, are not reasons we should stop believing in ourselves.
However, being the humans that we are, we want to judge it—to slap a label on our outcomes. We want to compare ourselves and know where we rank.
Sometimes, we do this to validate an already poor self-image or to try to motivate ourselves to change and do better.
How to believe in yourself even more during times of failure
Focusing on failure never got anyone anywhere. However, paying attention to the available learnings and the
Here are just a few things you wouldn’t have if people hadn’t ‘failed’: Post It notes, the microwave, Penicillin, the slinky, X-rays, and even chocolate chip cookies.
Helen Keller said, “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”