After recent events in my life, it felt like an opportune time to discuss a matter close to my heart. Namely, overcoming adversity, and turning failure into success.
Learn From Failure – Turn Failure Into Success
To gain knowledge, we fail. You wouldn’t learn if you never made mistakes. You’d simply be ideal in every aspect… which, to me, sounds incredibly dull.
Find the lessons if you fail at something:
What did you discover?
How would it aid your future success?
What will you change the next time around?
Understanding the lessons can enable us to realise that our time and efforts weren’t in vain and that we had become better, more capable people as a result.
Turning Points
There are many gatekeepers in life who can either advance our goals or impede them. They might conduct your employment interview for your ideal position. It might be the book publishers you’re submitting your manuscript to. Even just the friends of the person you really admire could suffice.
The truth is that they really don’t want you to fail. They want the greatest candidates, but they can’t let everyone in.
You have one option if they reject you again: give up. Or you might think of it this way: you’re not quite there yet, but if you work hard and use those lessons to keep progressing, you eventually will be.
Foundations – Turn Failure Into Success
Sometimes we believe that we ought to be successful right away.
You might believe that your new venture will succeed over night or that you’ll pick up a new ability very quickly.
It then turns out that success is challenging. Maybe we give up now. So be sure to check your hopes. In fact, being let down by our expectations can be upsetting (they affect the chemicals in our brain).
Instead, consider the big picture.
Consider your mistakes as laying the groundwork. Consider the big picture and develop slowly yet steadily, just like a bamboo.
Self-Talk
When you fail, what goes through your mind? Your self-talk can have a profound effect.
There is an issue if you fail and believe that you are a failure. That assertion indicates that you are a failure now, have always been a failure, and always will be.
Correct yourself if you ever believe something like that. I’m a failure, but this particular endeavour failed, or This time I didn’t succeed, but I can do better later on, can all be substituted for “I’m a failure.”
It can be difficult, especially if you experience several setbacks in a row. But consider each as a singular, transient occurrence.
Simply altering the way you communicate to yourself can have a profound effect on your success and tenacity.
Take Notes
If you’re having difficulty regaining your confidence and bouncing back, grab a pen and some paper.
If you’ve failed, it can be easy to become too focused on the negative and not see the positive (especially if it’s been failure after failure). If this happens to you, it’s ok — our brains have a negativity bias, so it’s just the way we work.
When you feel like you’re starting to become overwhelmed by failure and having a hard time continuing , write down every success you’ve had you can think of.
It doesn’t matter how big or small they are — looking for the small wins is great.
Funny as it may seem, our brains occasionally react to threats that aren’t actually present. Some of those hazards are things that diminish or make us appear silly to others.
We want to succeed. However, failure does not define who you are. Whether you decide to get up is entirely up to you. If anybody criticises you because of past mistakes, it is their issue, not yours.
Time To Rethink
It’s time to take another look at something if you continually doing the same thing and it doesn’t work.
Is there a more effective approach to take?
Exist any folks who could assist you?
Are your goals unattainable?
There is a saying that states that insanity is defined as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different outcomes. It’s not, although it is somewhat foolish.
Failure may be trying to tell you something else.
The problem is this. I cited those who persisted in their efforts, but sometimes quitting is the best course of action.
