That is what matters. Did you give yourself a chance to win or did you set yourself up for the loss by doing nothing to prepare?

I am a firm believer in the fact that you can never have too much information, it just comes down to how you use it.

If you go the extra mile to prepare, when game day comes you will have a plan, and now how well you execute that plan will determine whether or not you win or lose.

You could have a perfect business plan, spelling is great, punctuation is perfect, you covered all the bases, but then when you go to present it, you fumble over ideas and omit important details. This is a prime example of being prepared, but failing to execute.

You may know that 100 percent of the time a certain hitter will swing and miss at a slider down and away on 0-2. This is for sure, no doubt, so when the time comes, you throw the correct pitch, but you hang it and he hits it 500 feet. Prepared, but did not execute.

I have a feeling that a lot of people were like me, when I was younger; willing to go out and put myself out there, but not fully prepared to do so. I would give all I had and do everything I knew to do, but would come up short. This was because I failed to fully prepare. I executed my plan, but the problem was my plan was faulty.

Most people fail due to proper preparation and a lack of complete understanding of the task that lies ahead. Eventually we get smarter and we learn from mistakes, and then on our 2nd, 3rd, 4th try we succeed, because we executed a plan that had been perfected through mistakes and failure.

Keep pushing, keep grinding, keep gathering info, keep learning, and keep putting yourself out there. It is the only way to be successful, because successful people do not quit, even after they are successful.