Never ever give up after your first failure. Your goals aren’t going to be easy to achieve. You aren’t going to wake up one day and magically have everything you’ve dreamed about simply because you wanted it so badly. Your wants aren’t enough. Your intentions aren’t enough. Your actions are what’s going to lead you toward success. You have to put in the effort, put in the hours, put in the blood and sweat and tears.

Of course, you aren’t going to reach success on your first attempt. You are going to fail. You are going to experience rejection. You are going to make a million mistakes, both big and small. You can’t hold yourself back out of fear of failure because it’s a necessary step toward success. You aren’t going to get what you want without messing up first. You need to try, make mistakes, learn from your mistakes, and try again. You need to keep repeating that cycle over and over until you finally see the results you’ve been hoping to achieve.

If you want something badly enough, failure won’t stop you for long. You’ll get right back up and try again. You won’t let your dreams pass you by because you couldn’t live with yourself if you gave up on them. You owe it to yourself to follow your dreams. But you’re never going to reach those dreams unless you commit unless you put in the energy unless you ignore your fear of failure and take risks.

Remember, you aren’t going to reach your dreams without making a few mistakes, so treat each failure as a blessing. Be thankful you had the opportunity to fail. Be thankful you had the opportunity to grow.