I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.
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Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.
We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.
One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.
If you can get your life down to one minute at a time, you don't miss anything. You have total abundance of information and material.
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.