Sometimes success is merely hanging on when others would let go.

Not doing anything spectacular or out of the ordinary.

Not leaping a mile or jumping over a mountain,

but simply carrying on.

Thomas Edison has a famous quote that's really stuck with me over the years.

He says many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Right? How close they were to the finish line when they turned their back and said it wasn't worth it.

It's really an interesting thing to grasp.

Success is seeing what others can't.

It's believing when others don't.

It's taking the abstract, those visions, those pictures in your head, to make believe in finding the courage

to make them real.

Bring them to life.

It's this constantly evolving process and it grows a little bit every single day. Sometimes we feel that progress, we feel the momentum, we do something big and it's exciting.

And sometimes the progress feels small.

And then there are times when we get knocked down and we don't see it at all.

We feel like because we weren't validated that we lost, that we failed, that it wasn't

enough.

We forget that's part of the process, that progress is a journey.

And it goes when you go and it stops when you stop.

Just like that famous Dalai Lama quote, right? The only way to fail is to quit, period.

No one ever stops because they can't.

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