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Embrace Your Setbacks -- and Use Them to Your Advantage

We're either the sum of our setbacks or the sum of our triumphs. Choose the latter.
Source: Nigel Parry
Nigel Parry

As we enter into a new year, I’ve thought a lot about something a woman asked me at the end of 2017. I was a guest on the a live-streaming talk show, and she sat in the front row of the audience and stood up to speak. She’s experienced a lot of , she said. A lot of obstacles. Her life often feels stagnant.

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