Failure

Failure is the hardest thing I deal with.  It's the reason I try so hard to cover up my mistakes.  Failure to me is 100% the opposite of success.  So much so that I avoid it like a plague.  But a recent article by NPR has made me reevaluate this.

Failure is not, not succeeding.  It is just not accomplishing your goals.  Failure shouldn't be as horrible of a thing that I've made it to be.  Just because you haven't succeeded in your short term goals, doesn't mean you've not succeeded in the end.  Failure is an opportunity to learn from your mistakes.  If you never make mistakes (Especially because you don't try), then when you do try, you're going to make those mistakes.

It sound so simple now, but it was hard for me to come across.  I'll make mistakes, it's inevitable.  The best thing I can do is learn from those mistakes.  A failure should be viewed as a success.  I successfully learned a new way NOT to do something.  Just learn.  It shouldn't be such an issue.

Just learn.