If you feel like you’re failing, professionally or creatively, I’ve been there too. Here are ways to break out of a negativity spiral and stay positive. — At the end of 2013, I felt like a failure. Admittedly, I’m a member of the Millennial “I want it now” generation and up until that year being the over-achieving straight-A’s-multiple-extracurricular types was my thing. I’d had a solid run of getting everything I ever wanted scholastically and professionally.