If you have learnt from defeat, then you haven’t failed.
~ Zig Ziglar
We have all experienced failure at one point or the other. Whether it be failing in school, at relationships or in businesses. We have all had our fair share of failures.
The world once had a negative look on failure. “gasp! You failed?”. Thanks to influencers who are taking out time from being “awesome” to telling the truth and giving us a re-orientation of what failure is.
Truth is everyone fails sometimes. What’s the big deal? In fact,it might be a great idea to celebrate failure sometimes.
If you are thinking it is not possible to fail, then you need a whole different lesson.
When a smart man (woman), makes a plan, they hope for the best and prepare for the worst
Whether it be a business failure or failure in life endeavors, below are certain things you need to remember:
1. It is a process.
I have not failed, I have found 10,000 ways that won’t work .
~Thomas Edison
For every time you fail, you have found a way that did not work which is okay. Move on to the next plan. Failure avoids you the currency to try and try again. let’s face it, how would you get the best outcome of the mistakes if you don’t make the errors obvious?
2 . You are not a failure.
Failing doesn’t make you a failure. In fact, being a failure is a state of the mind and not as a result of something you did or did not do. Classifying yourself as a failure for failing in a particular task is just wrong, because failures don’t win. The word “failure“, has a note of finality
to it. You are not done yet.
- Fail and fail again.
This definitely beats failing and staying inside the failure. When you choose to wallow in the failure and get crippled by it, then you can confidently call yourself a failure. This is because you have not only failed to keep trying, you have given up on the goal and the purpose. That is a failure move.
- Great minds learn from failing
When something does not Work, you do not pack up and lock up. You go over it again,find errors and fix them. Programmers run their programs to debug them. They find the bugs and fix them. Voilà! Working application!. The mistakes you make are yours to make and yours to learn from. Make them count.
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Written by Priscilla Omoruyi
Wow nice article I enjoyed it. Thank you.