It doesn't matter how successful or unsuccessful you are right now. What matters is whether your habits are putting you on the path toward success. Y… - James Clear

You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.

Whether you are an adult or child, your first attempts will often seem unimportant or foolish.

• The open mic night at a nearly empty bar.
• The early blog posts that get ignored.
• The dance recital on a little stage.

Early attempts are easy to dismiss because they don't seem to amount to much. But you have to do the low stakes stuff to prepare for the high stakes stuff. They are the building blocks of confidence, and that's an enormous thing.

Failure is most useful when you give your best effort.

If you fail with a lackluster effort, you haven't learned much. Perhaps you could have succeeded with a proper focus.

But if your best effort fails, you have learned something valuable: this way doesn't work.

Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.