I love this article!! This resonates with me so much. I set such high standards for myself. I push myself in all different directions and I continue to struggle with feeling satisfaction for what I have accomplished. I have been trying to be an innovative, entreproneur my whole life and no matter how much I did or how much I brainstormed, nothing was going to come together until the circumstances were right.

I can see now how helpful every idea and every page of endless notes helped me to become the person I am today, doing the things I am doing.

Thanks for the friendly but blunt reminder that life can’t always be sunshine and rainbows — and trying to force it to be that way simply creates the stormy skies.