Definition of Success

Winston Churchill defined success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I don’t know that I have NO loss of enthusiasm, but my optimistic nature definitely helps in reducing the amount of loss I have from each failure. And another famous quote says there is no failure except in no longer trying (Chris Bradford). And sometimes you have to try many times in order to succeed. Sometimes the success looks different from how you first imagined it. But the success is there, if you try long enough, hard enough, and often enough. You can do the thing!

Winston Churchill also said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” That courage takes many forms. for me, it is momentum. It took me seven years to finish my Bachelors degree. I was working full time during the day, took classes at night. I had no social life. I struggled to pay for my broken car to get me to class and to work each day. I worked two different 30 hour jobs one semester, while taking 19 credits in college. I dropped out at one point, switched majors, switched colleges, but still, in the end, finished with a double major. I just kept pushing and pushing and pushing until I achieved my goal.

What are your greatest successes?

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Celtic Fairies, Fables, and Folklore! Bestselling author (top #100 Amazon Canada, #1 in Paranormal Fantasy, Amazon Canada) Christy Nicholas, also known as Green Dragon, is an author, artist and accountant. After she failed to become an airline pilot, she quit her ceaseless pursuit of careers that begin with 'A', and decided to concentrate on her writing. Since she has Project Completion Disorder, she is one of the few authors with NO unfinished novels. Christy has her hands in many crafts, including digital art, beaded jewelry, writing, and photography. In real life, she's a CPA, but having grown up with art all around her (her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother are/were all artists), it sort of infected her, as it were. She wants to expose the incredible beauty in this world, hidden beneath the everyday grime of familiarity and habit, and share it with others. She uses characters out of time and places infused with magic and myth. Combine this love of beauty with a bit of financial sense and you get an art business. She does local art and craft shows, as well as sending her art to various science fiction conventions throughout the country and abroad. Facebook: www.facebook.com/greendragonauthor Homepage: www.greendragonartist.com Blog: www.greendragonartist.net Twitter: www.twitter.com/greendragon9