Hundreds of famous people have failed over and over again, only to succeed.  Some like Thomas Edison failed tens of thousands of times in the pursuit of over 1000 patents.  Failure is THE indicator of success.  If you look at some of the most famous innovators of the last 100 years, most of them had long stretches of failures and set-backs before they found success.

I have had many failures in life but I have also had many success, albeit many of them have been insignificant to the world around me, but successes nonetheless. Many of these successes have been deeply personal: Overcoming fears, changing habits, mending old wounds.  These successes have had an incredible affect on my life.  I cannot imagine life without having found them.