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How To Be A Successful Failure2000 Many years ago, I left Townsville and moved to Sydney. As I was leaving, a good friend gave me a piece of paper on which was printed the 10 Ways On How To Be A Successful Failure. That stung me. In many ways, I had been guilty of a lot of the things on that sheet. I started a new life in Sydney, and whenever things got tough and I wanted to quit, I would remember the Failure Document and go back and read it. That always gave me enough incentive to persevere. I did well in Sydney. Then I moved to the USA, and once again I faced fear and uncertainty and many times I wanted to give up and go home. Luckily, I brought my now tattered Failure Document with me, and I bring it out whenever it's needed, and read it, and feel ashamed for being such a quitter, and then I persevere and things work out again. The document is old and tattered now, and I thought it was about time I transferred it to the Web so that I won't lose it and can refer to it more easily.
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