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Your Resilience Will Defy Failure

1 min readMay 16, 2024

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Hope this doesn’t catch you at a bad time.

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Hard work doesn’t guarantee success.

A bitter pill, eh?

You put your heart and soul into something, do everything right, then fall short.

Things don’t always pan out, regardless of how desperately we want it.

I’ve tasted the brutal, bitter disappointment more than once…

Just like you.

But, what I will not do is use failure as an excuse to give up.

Failure is never permanent unless we allow it to be.

When I stumble, I dust myself off and map out a new path forward.

Because, somehow the challenge beckons me.

And, like me, you know every outcome cannot be controlled…

But, we can control our efforts, our attitudes, and perseverance.

Just keep getting back up, and eventually, you’ll be assured success.

Never surrender your dreams to temporary defeat.

Never in this competitive world.

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Shortform is dedicated to quick, interesting reads. If you are looking for some tiny nuggets of knowledge, easy entertainment, maybe a laugh or two😂. Shortform is designed for consuming content when short on time, energy, or waiting for a bus that’s always infuriatingly late.

T. M. Watson
T. M. Watson

Written by T. M. Watson

Writer, author, researcher on self-preservation. I love good coffee & meaningful, heartfelt conversation.

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