Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
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Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.
Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.
In the long run, it's impossible to make progress without sometimes having setbacks, although people who get lucky on their first attempt sometimes forget this.
Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don't repeat that pattern.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.
Failure usually works for me in the end.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.
When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.
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