“Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”—Orison Swett Marden
Be your best today; be better tomorrow. To be better tomorrow suggest that there is always room to grow. “Success” is an elusive goal—an asymptote. If this is so (and I believe it is), we “fail” more often than we “succeed.”
In exercise science, we talk of “progressive overload”—for a body system to adapt, it must be challenged to a level greater than that to which it is accustomed. Persistent effort. Best today. Better tomorrow.
Achievement comes with progressive challenges. The grind. It is not a gift or an inheritance. It requires “persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”
Expect and accept failure as part of the path to success. Learn from it. Grow from it. Be grateful for it. (Grattitude.) Know that falling forward is still progress.
Pursue success with a sense of Purpose. Work and welcome failure as achievement. Fail today and be better tomorrow.
Be your best today; be better tomorrow.
Carpe momento!