Never be Tired of Failing Your Way to Success. Often times things go ok or even better than that. But on some days they don’t. You make a mistake, have a setback or you simply fail. It’s no fun. But you can’t avoid it either unless you avoid doing anything at all.
Never be Tired of Failing Your Way to Success
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
C. S. Lewis
So what’s needed is a smart and self-kind way to handle such situations instead of letting them lead to vicious self-beatings and to them dragging you down into negativity.
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan
One thing we don’t like to overly idolize is those gurus advising the practice of “failing your way to success.”
Who wants to fail? or wants to waste their time? Who wants to flush money down the toilet on plans that don’t stand a chance of working?
“Ever tried? Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
Just accept how you feel. When you’ve just failed it will most likely hurt. Sometimes a bit. Sometimes a lot. That’s OK.
Don’t try to push it away by distracting yourself or by trying to push the responsibility onto the rest of the world (if you deep down know that this one’s on you partly or fully). And don’t try to paint it over with a smile.
I’ve found that it works better to not let yourself be led away by those options or impulses. But to just be with what I’m thinking and feeling.
To try to accept it, to let it in, and to hurt for a while instead of trying to reject it all and keep it away.
Because when you let it in and accept it then it will go faster and in the long run be less painful to process what has happened.
If you reject how you really feel then those emotions will pop up at unexpected times later on and can make you moody, pessimistic, angry, or sad.
Never be Tired of Failing Your way to Success. Remember: you’re not a failure just because you had a setback.
When you’ve had a setback it’s very easy to start thinking that you will always keep failing in this area of your life. It’s easy to start thinking that YOU are indeed a failure.
Don’t fall for such a destructive and sometimes seductive self-fulfilling prophecy.
Instead, remind yourself that:
- Just because you failed today or yesterday doesn’t mean that you’ll fail the next time.
- The truth is that this won’t last for the rest of your life if you keep moving forward if you take action and you keep learning and it doesn’t label you as some kind of failure (except if you decide to create that label in your own head).
Seeing what’s negative as a temporary thing instead of something permanent is an essential key to an optimistic attitude and to keep going forward in life.