The sawdust belongs to the finished chair, even though it cannot stay.

The waste was never separate from the making. Every curve in the finished piece exists because that much material left, and the pile on the floor is the exact negative of the shape. Drafts work the same way, and so do the versions of a plan you abandoned. Nothing of them appears in the result, and the result could not have been reached without them.

Stop counting the discarded attempts against yourself. Looking back at a stretch of work that produced nothing you kept, ask what it removed rather than what it made. Some months are shaping months, which is not the same as wasted ones.