Top 10 Tips For Facing Failure
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1. Failure is normal. Everyone has faced failure. Some people talk about their failures. Some people don’t talk about their failures, which makes it look like they never fail. Don’t believe it.
2. Define or refine. Failure can define you or refine you. If you quit, you have allowed failure to define you. If you keep going, learn from it and get stronger, you have used failure to refine yourself.
3. Learn from it. Every failure has something to teach us, if we will only be teachable. To be teachable, we need to ask good questions such as “What contributed to this failure?” or “What can I do differently and/or better next time?”
4. Change your definition of failure. We live in an either/or culture. Either you totally succeed or you completely fail. Many times it’s neither.
5. Redefine what failure means to you. A failure is simply evidence that you took a shot at accomplishing something, that you want to be a doer instead of just a talker.
6. Successful people fail often. How can you be successful and fail often? You become successful by taking risks. Risk implies that you might fail. Otherwise it would not be called risk-taking; it would be called sure-thing taking.
7. Build on your failures. Many of the great success stories are built on what was learned from failure or the motivation that can come from failure.
8. Don’t fear failure. The of failure holds us back from doing many of the things we would like to do.
9. Give up your belief in failure. A wise person once said, “Failure? I’ve never encountered it. I’ve just learned lots and lots of ways that don’t work, and turned that into a few successes.”
10. Never, ever give up. An ancient Japanese proverb suggests that we are to “fall down seven times, get up eight.”
Mohamed
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I think this post is great. So many people are so afraid of failing that they go totally down on it. Everybody fails, its human, and as you say, use it as a way to learn and next time you will do it better. I think you have to fail to succeed.
I find I learn more from getting it wrong than from getting it right first time. As long as you want something enough you will pick yourself back up and persevere. If you let doubt rule your actions then you will never get anywhere, you are right just accept setbacks as being part of the learning curve. Just wish it wasn’t so steep.
Excellent article. Thanks for the grate tips on facing failure. I think failure is the first step of success.
well written. learn from your experience/past and do better next time.
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger! This is my idea of failure!
“Failure? I’ve never encountered it. I’ve just learned lots and lots of ways that don’t work”.
i think that applies for me. im still trying
inspiring blog you got here.. everyone could relate to it..
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