“Far away there
in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I
can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow
where they lead." - Louisa May Allcott
YES, I am sure you tried it last year, last month, last week and even yesterday and when the facts are examined it was a monumental failure. In fact, some people said you are not intelligent enough, not skilled enough, it’s not for people like you, your background does not support what you are attempting to achieve. Yet, others say you're over ambitious and braggadocious, but let me beg to differ, I dare you to attempt it again today.
Let me borrow an extract from Theodore Roosevelt’s speech in 1899 at the Hamilton Club in Chicago. "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who does actually try to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion
and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
You are the strong man, you are the man in the center of the arena, yes you have known some failures but, I guarantee that you will know more success than failures. The truth is that every time you fail dust yourself up, summon some courage and attempt again, try another angle, use a different approach , success is a guarantee in your case.
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