Lesson 2: Don’t Personalize Failure — Forgive Yourself If you haven’t caught my first post in this series, you might want to start here before diving back into this one — because failure and I? Well, let’s just say we’ve had a complicated relationship. In that post, I barely scratched the surface of how deeply failure affected my mind and spirit. But here’s a little story that takes it deeper: I was having lunch with one of my girlies, and she had these gorgeous braids — the kind that make you do a double take. Now, keep in mind, I was super broke for the longest time. Broke to the point where the word “failure” felt like an endless echo in my mind. So when she told me how much those braids cost, I couldn’t hide my shock. To me, they were expensive. Now, they probably weren’t really expensive, but after personalizing my failure — aka my financial struggles — everything that I used to afford...