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Failure sucks. We all want to succeed on the first try, be the best and instantly win. But life does not work that way. Instant of blaming yourself or others, just know that great things take time. Feel a little but get mentally ready to move forward.
Reassess your work
Even if y9u did y9ur best, there is always room to improve and adjust to better meet the challenge at hand. Maybe the timing is just a bit off? Focus on how to make things that much better.
Plan your attack
Success is about so much more than work or talent alone. Thing about how to next summit, apply, or present your work. Plant a course of action using what you now know about what you have to offer and who might most appreciate or benefit from it.
Try Again
Submit your new resume. Present your adjusted product. Pitch your revised concepts. Your revised concepts. You knew you had something great, it just needed some fine tuning or maybe you have been inspired to move on to something else altogether? Follow your gut and keep going.
How to begin again
Do not look back in anger. Check your pulse. Do your research. Retool your practice. Be accountable. Write your manifesto. Charge forward.
Do not look back in again
It is never too late to begin again and there are many reasons why we may need or want to. But one thing you cannot do is resent your past. Sure, some of it was. But you leaned. You are how you are because of what you know now.
Check your pulse
What do you care about? Where does your passion lie? Our motivations shift and change as we do, so lit may be radically different, knowing what sopped being important to you was how you got here. It is time to identify what mattes now.
