A common misconception is that success comes without failure. In reality, failure exceeds and often overtakes all personal success. And even if achieved, you can often become blinded to personal progress.
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It’s very easy to create a benchmark for yourself that is unattainable, and along the way pick yourself apart for your inability to reach the target set for yourself. But it is often just a change in perspective that can turn your negative experience into something positive and empowering.
Failure has inevitably been a very key part of our journey. We’ve attempted and ‘failed’ at many things. Be it blogging, photography, money making, networking. The world is a very daunting place, but our failures have not set us back on our path to achieving what we have today. Often the fear of failure can be your biggest disability, holding you back from life experiences and a wealth of opportunity.
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By viewing failure as motivation or an opportunity to challenge and change our experiences, we’ve enabled ourselves to reach for goals that were before only ever in our wildest dreams.
Failure has taught us resilience, adaptability and strength. It’s taught us to be comfortable with whom we are and to be confident with our own skills. Failure has taught us to strive big, but also to remember where we started. The word that so many fear has essentially become our catalyst for success.
We all know too well how crippling a negative mind can be, and by letting failure become a common term in your mind; you’re already setting yourself up to hit a brick wall. But what so many fail to acknowledge is that negativity is also a choice. We all hold the ability to forge a life for ourselves that we love. Despite hurdles and road blocks, we do in fact have the ability to turn these into something great.
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Self employment was what we chose to do. We didn’t sit and dwell or even consider what could and would go wrong. We just hit the ground running with the drive and ambition to make it work. And low and behold; it has.
If found slumped in a period of depression and perceived lack of achievement, reevaluate where you’ve come from. What did you set out to achieve. Have you in all reality achieved that, or what was the thing that got in your way? Is there another way of helping you to reach that goal, or does the goal itself require alteration. Your life shouldn’t be crippled by ideals that are unattainable. That leaves the gap between your perceived self and ideal self too large to fathom. Create goals that will boost your self esteem and reward you with a healthy mentality that’ll boost both happiness and health.
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What has failure taught you?