If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.

You will have to read the text below to get his reference to a sugar cookie.

His point is that no matter how hard you try, sometimes things just don’t work out. You have to make the conscious decision to move forward anyway.

Life is full of little setbacks. Things that don’t go the way you want them to.

Each setback comes with a choice: give up or keep going.

These are the choices that separate success from failure.

Failure doesn’t come from not being perfect, it comes from giving up.

Which will you choose?

Make it a great day.

Jake

Here is the text from his speech:

Several times a week, the instructors would line up the class and do a uniform inspection. It was exceptionally thorough.

Your hat had to be perfectly starched, your uniform immaculately pressed and your belt buckle shiny and void of any smudges.

But it seemed that no matter how much effort you put into starching your hat, or pressing your uniform or polishing your belt buckle — it just wasn’t good enough.

The instructors would find "something" wrong.

For failing the uniform inspection, the student had to run, fully clothed into the surfzone and then, wet from head to toe, roll around on the beach until every part of your body was covered with sand.

The effect was known as a "sugar cookie." You stayed in that uniform the rest of the day — cold, wet and sandy.

There were many a student who just couldn’t accept the fact that all their effort was in vain. That no matter how hard they tried to get the uniform right — it was unappreciated.

Those students didn’t make it through training.

Those students didn’t understand the purpose of the drill. You were never going to succeed. You were never going to have a perfect uniform.

Sometimes no matter how well you prepare or how well you perform you still end up as a sugar cookie.

It’s just the way life is sometimes.

If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward. ​