Failing Fast & Failing Forward
One of my favorite quotes is from Winston Churchill: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts" That quote really hits home for me. Earlier in life, every time I hit a milestone—made my first million, closed a big deal, climbed one mountain—I was already looking toward the next one. Success felt like forward motion. But one could argue it wasn’t success at all—just unchecked ambition. The truth is, most people trying to better themselves or leave their mark don’t leap from one peak to the next. They stumble. They fall into valleys. They get stuck in deserts. They get shipwrecked, abandoned, broke. They lose confidence. They bleed. They cry. I’ve been failing a lot lately. I’ve been in prison for over four years now. My business collapsed. My reputation was dragged through the mud. My kids barely know me. I’ve failed—and I keep failing. When you’re in the system long enough, you get transferred from prison to prison, and every tim...