Feeling down and blue

My feelings yesterday:
Got my midterm back a few days ago and it was not good news. 1/3 of the class failed and the class average was 60%. Unfortunately, I got 30%. For this exam I put in a lot of extra effort but I guess it was just not enough. For some reason this academic term hasn't been going so great and my marks so far do not look good on a grad school application =(

To add to this, I have not seen the results I want from the three Squidoo lenses that I have created from scratch. I have done a lot of research (I will share this with you someday), and I expected these pages to do some magic almost immediately after I published them. As of yesterday, none of them were indexed by Google.

My feelings today:
I checked around noon time today and found out that my 3rd lens was indexed. WOOHOO! I searched the title of that lens and found it ranked 6th on the first page of Google!!! That is amazing because I had only created that lens two days ago. Because I was so excited, I did some more optimization tricks and added more content to all my lenses.

From yesterday, I was feeling down and doubted my studying methods because of the failed midterm. Fortunately, they handed back another midterm today at my other class and I got 80%. My confidence was instantly restored after seeing the 80% on my exam paper.

Moral of the story?
Perhaps it is just me but our emotions and mentality can be so easily affected by everyday events. A simple example is what happened to me as mentioned above. Maybe a suggestion is to learn to keep stepping forward, no matter what happens? If you know you have done your best, then be at peace with it because that is all you can do. Move on and keep working hard regardless of the result. Don't stop because every minute that you sit and feel bad for yourself, you are wasting precious time. This might be time that you can use to be productive and to make up for your mistakes. Learn from your mistakes, move on, keep working hard and eventually it will pay off.