I stopped calling errors “mistakes;” I call them hiccups instead.

Life does that to us, doesn’t it — come at inconvenient times in inconvenient ways asking more of us than we think we’re ready to give. Great leaders know that inconvenience transforms us and pushes us out of our comfortable box into unlimited potential.

How often do we do that? Stop too soon. Fail to take one more step. Fail to do the one last thing that will put us where we need to be. Fail to plot our course.

Sometimes life seems such a heavy burden to bear. We let problems grow out of proportion. It swallows us up. We lie trapped under a pile of dirty dishes, unable to move, unable to find the way.

That young lady knows the secret not many know: You don’t always have to win to win.