“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
~John Burroughs
Hat tip to Twitter pal Shawnz, aka Shawn Zehnder Lea
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Becky, we love the idea that you just have to “fail forward!”
Building a positive way of dealing with failures is essential. My favorite concept is still “I cannot fail; I can only learn and grow.”