(A List of some of the things I have failed to accomplish in my career:)
NOT a member of the National Academy of Sciences
NOT a Fellow of the AAAS
NOT listed as one of the 1000 Best Mathematical Scientists
NOT a plenary speaker at ICIAM (International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics
NOT a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
NOT an endowed chair (I do, however, have a nice chair in my office as well as a recliner chair)
... (Lots of other things)
Oh well. It is what it is.
``He preferred to be outside and people wondered why not than to be inside and people wondered why." - attributed to Albert Camus