What exactly is failure?

Josh Hatch
Jul 20, 2017 · 2 min read

Failure is a word with a universal definition. To fail is to not succeed, in it’s simplest terms, to anybody asked to define it.

Why have I defined a word that need not be defined? It’s because although failure is a word that everyone knows and understands; our own success and failure is not based on a universal definition.

For me to fail, I have to feel like I did not succeed. That means that my personal success and failure are based off of my personal definition of those words.

The point I want to make is that people are so beaten down every day by the people around them. This may be actually being verbally accosted about something someone else sees as a failure, or by seeing the people around that seem to be more successful. Don’t make your success match someone else’s success. As long as you are goal oriented, hard working, and never ever give up, then you are successfully working towards your dreams.

Pick something you want to do, and fucking do it. Don’t allow yourself to make excuses. Fuck the people around you that bring you down. Do you. Be successful in a way that makes you feel whole.

If your entire plan every day is to succeed in your own goals and you refuse to let outside influences sway you; success is eminent.

If you feel like a success when you wake up every morning, then who is anybody to tell you you’re not exactly that?

“Don’t let a mad world convince you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.” -Eckhart Tolle

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