Continuing

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Sir Winston Churchill

This is one reason why it is not satisfying to treat success as the destination we want to finally arrive at. We might say to ourselves I'll be successful when I have a waterfront condo in a resort area". But even if we do get to that point, first of all our success could be taken away (we might lose money in our investments for ex) or more likely we will find something else that we want even more and lose interest in our waterfront condo as we concentrate on acquiring the new thing. Success is a journey, not a destination. You never arrive. You are always moving.

Fortunately for us, failures are not final either. You can always get back up from your failures and try something new. If you have learned from your failures, you will have a better idea of what might work next time. There always is a next time. It just takes motivation, the intense desire to reach your goal, for us to have the courage to continue. We must expect failures and realize that they are not the end of the world. Life goes on. The pursuit of your goal must go on too. Never give up just because you've failed. Learn as much as possible about what went wrong, dust yourself off, get back on your horse and keep riding.

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