If At First You Don’t Win, Don’t Quit

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If at first you don’t win, do not quit. According to W.C. Fields, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” Failure will always come to you. You can’t stop failure. The only thing you can do is to embrace it. Don’t limit yourself. Allow yourself to fail. Because without failure, you will never grow. We grow when we fail, when we make mistakes. As Sophia Loren once said, “Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” Without failure, nothing happens. Without failure, you won’t grow.

“If you are not failing, you are not doing enough.”

And if you want to grow, do not fear failure. Failure is the way, not the obstacle. If you are not failing, you are not doing enough. If you are not failing, you are not learning. If you are not failing, you are not growing. Do not let failure stop you from living your full life. You can do anything. You can create anything. You can be anything. But you must work really hard to make it happen.

“Without failure, there can be no growth.”

Talk is cheap. Actions are expensive. Do not be a talker, be a doer. Talkers fear failures. But doers welcome failures. They learn from their mistakes.

And without failure, there can be no growth, there can be no success, and there can be no happiness.

If You Can’t Find A Way, Make Your Own Way

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As the saying goes, “Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest.” Don’t give up just because it is hard to do. Hard is not impossible.

Philip Sidney said, “Either I will find a way, or I will make one.” Yes, if you can’t find a way forward, make your own way. Follow your own path. Do not give up. You are almost there. You have done it before. This time, with hard work, you can create your own world. You can create your own life. Because no one is going to create your life for you. Commit yourself to your growth and development. Work on yourself. Because if you are not growing, your life is not growing.

We are all growing. We are all learning. Learning is a journey. Because it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time to learn something new. It takes time to learn about who we really are. And it takes courage to do it. It takes courage to live, to grow, to change, to face our fears.

“If you can see it, if you can feel it, you can change it.”

Everything takes courage to do. As Annie Dillard once said, “You can’t test courage cautiously.” If you want to test your courage, you must get out of your comfort zone. You can’t test your courage in your comfort zone. To do that, you must get out. And to do that, you must start something new. You must change your thoughts. Because if you can change your thoughts, you can change your life. Do it for you. Do it for yourself. No one is going to change your life for you. If you can see it, if you feel it, you can change it. Why not today?