Recently, I've been beating myself a lot. I've missed deadlines, I have put off important tasks that could totally change my life and I've slightly isolated myself from the people who care about me. There has been a single word floating around my head for the past several months. Failure. It has eaten away at me, broken me down to my core, and ultimately, made myself feel terrible. This word is also the one to pick me back up.

I am a failure, and I am 100% okay with that.

Being a failure means you tried. You tried your hardest, but did not quite reach it with the method you were trying. You can either take that as the end all, or you can use that failure to further push you to your goal. Sometimes you have to fail, to really see the vision you want for yourself. Failing lets you learn, it lets you grow, but only if you let it.

Use the times you failed to keep pushing yourself. Use it to come up with new and brighter ideas that can make you go leaps and bounds that what you did before. Success is based on the risks you are willing to take, and sometimes those risks do not always end on a positive note. Never let that deter you from moving forward because the only time you really fail is when you stop trying.

Failing is apart of life. I think once you can accept that idea, a whole new world opens up. You're able to think quicker, bounce back faster and realize that this one misstep is no longer the end. It is only just a new beginning.

I don't think I will ever stop failing, but that also means I will never stop succeeding.