Your words are indeed true. Some of us focus too much on the obstacles ahead of us and forget to look back and appreciate how high we have climbed. I feel celebrating successes as well as striving after the next goal, gives one a balanced picture and a stabilized planning system. For you do not work out of the fear of failing; you know where you where before and the strength you discovered as you overcame previous obstacles. You know that strength has not deserted you in this present endeavour.
You also will be able to take failure well. When we forget success and remember only mistakes, failure becomes difficult to deal with. We do not see the lesson, just the pain.
When things go slow in business, it is the memories of those peak periods that makes you keep pushing because you know it will be better.

We sometimes overextend ourselves or become relaxed out of wishful thinking. Either we feel that we have to compensate for something we think we lack or we feel that everything is going to work out fine, afterall we have done it before.
This is what looking at where you are coming from might cause. Remembering success makes some of us forget that success is not a gift; it takes work. We often forget the sweat and toil it took to get to where we are, so we become complacent then we fail.
The key is to look at the present and identify the obstacles you are facing and deal with them.

Previously i have had curations from ocd as well as curie. Now the memory of seeing the upvotes on my blog will never leave my head but the truth is, i will probably never get curated by curie again. Do i keep on doing what i was doing, hoping for curation that will never come, or do i study where i am now and restructure my blog accordingly?

We need to be thankful as well as prepared. We need to look at the whole picture, not just parts of it that make us happy.

peace.