You're only a failure if you don't try.

Stop hiding behind yourself and just do the thing!

I was sitting at the bar in 1982, nursing my shattered ego. I had just gotten fired from my radio job (that’s another story) and was trying to figure out how in the hell I was going to make it. My mentor was with me, talking me down from the ceiling. We discussed the possibility of me starting an ad agency. There was no service like that in my Midwester…