If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort. - Kamal Ravikant

But I can't erase the past, only learn from it. It's ok. Applying what I know makes the present and the future a beautiful place to be.

If you're about to take a risk — one that comes from within, one that expresses your true nature, that brings up fear after fear after fear — you know what to do. One: do the work, create the value. Two: draw the people that encourage you closer. They're the only ones that matter.

Success and failure come and go but don’t let them define you. It’s who you are that matters. And if the outcome doesn’t match your desire, you won’t crash in the process. Instead, you’ll walk away with the lessons learned and go on to create far greater things.