The Most Costly Part of Failure

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The most costly part of failure is typically the time you waste wallowing around on the ground before getting up.

Time is the most valuable resource in existence. It’s irreplacable yet so easy to blow it on nothing.

You have a bad day and you choose to turn it into a bad week.

You turn a bad week into a bad month, a bad month into a bad year.

You can lose years of your life that way.

With most forms of failure, it’s up to you whether to have a v-shaped recovery and get back up right away, or burn precious time flailing around on the ground throwing a tantrum.

While you often cannot undo mistakes, you often can make up for them by doing better in the future.

But that requires you to focus on the present & future. You won’t pull that off if you’re dwelling on the past.

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