I was reading through past Creative Life (CL) and I came across this article on "winning over ourselves":

1) When you devote your life to achieving a goal, you will not be bothered by shallow criticism. In fact, nothing important can be accomplished if you allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking over your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking. To move forward along your chosen path with determination-this is the key to achievement

2) It's foolish to be obsessed with past failures. And it's just as foolish to be self-satisfied with one's small achievenments. Buddhism teaches that the present and future that are important, not the past. It teaches us the spirit of unceasing challenge to win over the present and advance ever towards the future. A person who neglect this spirit of continual striving steer their lives in a ruinous direction.

~Daisaku Ikeda~

=) going to get back my result tml. haha... hmmms. Nelson Mandela once said: “The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”

lols