Saima Ikram
It is impossible to live without failing at something and it is the most important step to reaching success. It does feel like crushing your soul but it happens when you fail to define the true meaning of failure. These are the times mostly when we let ourselves and others down. You try the hardest to do something and fail which really stings you in the heart. But failures not only kill your dreams, they also shake your confidence to the extreme. It makes failure to leave a mark on you, but it does not have to be that way. Failure is more of an emotional toll and that is okay for some time. But it is important to get the negative feelings out of your system so that you can regroup and tackle what is next.
It does feel comfortable to stay in the hiding for some time but you need to get up and stand tall. You have to keep moving forward towards your future by keeping few things in mind.
Success is not a smooth journey:
Failure is a part of life and you cannot succeed without encountering it. It does not mean that you stop making an effort to succeed. But when failure hits you, completely ignoring what happened is not going to help. Therefore, set aside some time wallow as much as you want, but once that time is over, consider it past, and think about what is next.
There are endless opportunities:
A failure does not mean that you will not get another chance. Life will always give you another chance to try again. You may think it was a once year contest and it will be too long to wait. But that long wait is the time you can become stronger and compete with more power. You may not have the same landscape but things always change for better and there is always a chance to avail.
Failures have lessons:
When you keep succeeding at something, you remain ignorant of the strategies that can make collapse your next move. But once you fail you realize your mistakes and pay attention to what went wrong. Failures make you wiser and you always avoid making the same mistakes again and again.
Accept your failure:
If you keep imagining that you should be the winner then it will get you stuck in your tracks. You will never be able to move forward towards your success. You cannot achieve success on thinking about the things you have done, it can only be achieved by working on what could be done.
Believe you are competent enough:
The setback may make you feel pathetic for the time being but that does not make you incompetent. Even the successful people who you idolize failed at some points in their life. That didn’t make them incompetent. Failing does not mean you are doomed to stay in the back seat, it just means you have more work to do with new strategies. You may feel bad but it does not mean you have lost your potential. You are always a lot more than the failures you have faced in life.
Via: Addicted2Success
