Success Through Confidence Series Part 20: Bouncing Back With Determination

It’s important to hit rock bottom a few times personally. It keeps you grounded in reality. Seriously, this is what you should do - get a copy of The Pursuit of Happyness. It sounds like you are in the perfect frame of mind to watch this one and it will show you what the human spirit is capable of when the desire is there.
There are some of people who’ve become so used to setting the bar so high that they see failure in relative terms.

It’s natural to consider what will happen if you fail at something and you should. What happens if you fail a sports event? Ultimately: nothing. You forget about the consequences with a couple weeks. Failing college? I'd have to move home and start from scratch. It’ll probably make you want to faint a couple of times, but hardly the end of the world.

The more you can visualize what you do if you fail at a goal, you end up worrying less about failing the goal. Right now I imagine you're seeing the failure as something foreign and frightening. For a child, this might seem like a monster under the bed. For an adult it can feel like a numbing dread. But the more you put a human face on it the less it scares you; the less it stresses you; and the calmer you are about tackling your goals.