Sometimes we lose. We do everything we think we can, put all of our effort into something, but ultimately it doesn’t work out as we wanted it to. We end up losing instead of winning.
Losing sucks. To have an expectation of a result and then not achieving it is frustrating, humbling, and can be paralyzing. Sometimes it is enough to make us give up completely. Instead of making adjustments and trying again, we might just want to abandon whatever we were trying to do.
That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because maybe we weren’t clear enough about what we were trying to do in the first place. But giving up on a dream because the going gets a little bit tough is a shame.
What if a little bit of refining is all you need to do? What if the next time you tried, you succeeded? You will never know what might have been if you give up.
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