Why is it so easy to fail and so hard to succeed?

It seems like my default mode is failure. Maybe i need too much to feel like i have succeeded. I feel like a shitty husband, father, son and person of belief and faith. I guess it boils down to not doing those things we know must be done to succeed and doing those lazy and stupid things that are easy or immediately gratifying right?

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reflectingmonkey · 51-55, M

when I fail at something and I feel like crap, which has happened a lot in my life, I remind myself of something I learned by studying people who have a lot of success, basically, the difference between winners and losers is not the number of times they failed its how they react to failure. when you look at the live of successful people you always hear the same thing, their failed so many times before they got it right but they always get back up and try to do better next time. losers fail once and then write themselves off as losers.