Failure: I struggle to even use the word at all here because of what it typically implies. Yet I tend to think that anything deemed as a failure is actually something that helps us grow,
and has the potential to be incredibly positive.
In personal development circles, the question that often gets asked is “what would you do if you knew you could not fail?” Or some derivative of that question. How great would life be, if you feel you can only succeed, win and learn? What kind of dreams would you follow, when you would really feel you can’t fail, but you can only succeed, win or
learn?
One of the central points I want to make today, is that failure is not necessarily so, it does not always have to be a fact. It’s just a way to look at something that happened, that hadn’t worked out exactly the way you wanted it to. In these kinds of situations, you can really train your mindset by changing the words ‘I’ve failed’ to ‘I’ve
learned’. You can’t control everything that will happen in your life, but it’s good to remember that it’s always your choice how you look at it and ultimately how you respond to it.
If you say ‘I’ve failed’ it sometimes implies an ending to a story. But life is a journey. As long as you learn, you’re growing. If you train your brain to see everything as succeeding in some way, as
developing, as necessary and as learning, you’re ready to really follow your dreams. What’s more if you have that attitude installed before you embark on your goals, the journey is one of pure development and not one crippled by fear of failure.
The most surprising thing is many people just keep within their comfort zone. The magic happens outside of your comfort zone. If you see everything just
as a challenge which you can win and/or learn from, you’re ready to get out of your comfort zone and pick up new challenges every day.
Read these articles to really learn why and how to step out of your comfort zone:
“I failed my way to success,” Thomas Edison once said. He could have said that he “worked his way” to success and/or “obtained knowledge” on his path to success. Why didn’t he?
Because working hard and obtaining knowledge comes part and parcel with failure. How can you work hard yet never stumble? How can you obtain knowledge yet never fail to optimize it? You just cannot. One’s mindset towards failure should be that each failure is simply getting us closer to the success we are after.
To be an effective leader, you must embrace failure as inevitable, and make meaning
of your circumstances in a way that will benefit you and those around you. Effective leaders and pioneers embrace failures as opportunities. They imagine the problems they would prefer to have and understand that in the solutions lie the real products of success.
Charles Barkley once said that “If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!” And I think he was right. You can’t
become a successful person unless you go through a set of failures. Why is that?
Well, there are many reasons why failure can lead to great success! Go and read this article to read these reasons:
How To Learn From
Failure.
