JOURNAL

When you have put in time and effort, but the result still seems to be sitting exactly where it was before, it can be hard to know what to do next. Should you keep going? Change your approach? Or stop?

People usually see the final scene of an achievement. You are the one who knows how many times you had to begin again before reaching it. How many times you worked through the urge to stop. How many quiet choices had to be made when no one was watching.

A bad day can cost you one day. Deciding that “everything is ruined now” can cost you several more. Beginning again does not mean pretending nothing happened. It means dealing honestly with what happened, then taking back the next choice.