“Failure: the tuition you pay for success.” – Chinese fortune cookie
Ever envy someone that seems to have it all? Feeling like a failure because you do not have what they have?
It took me many years to learn that usually it is not the person that I envy or their position but rather something specific they’ve got which I do not. This new awareness that it is something they have helps me strive to get it. By doing the hard work to get that which I don’t have – I earn what I once envied. The pleasure and happiness of working hard and earning something is far greater than if I would have started out with it and been successful already.