At some point in life, everyone fails at something. The failure might be related to school, work, hobbies, relationships, or a myriad of other life categories or activities. There may be learning disabilities, employment problems, marital and family disputes, or other situational difficulties. Learning how to deal with failure can greatly impact the lives of everyone involved.
Handling Failure With Persistency
It is natural to feel disappointment, despair, hopelessness, and anger when things do not go as planned. However, it becomes a problem when individuals see themselves as total failures instead of just acknowledging and accepting that their plans went awry. Certainly, there is a vast difference contrast between those two ideas.
Although Thomas Edison built approximately 9,999 light bulbs before he finally made one that lit up, the general consensus is that he was a great success. Had he considered himself a failure, people might still be using candlelight.
How Do You Respond To Failure?
The variations of reactions to failure affect whether a person will succeed or fail at their goals. Some possible reactions to failure might be to persist in the ineffective plan, to blame others, or to use failure as an opportunity to re-evaluate and revise.
Using failure for evaluation is a way to learn what changes will be necessary to accomplish the desired result. Once that is decided, development of a different action plan can take place.
Once strategies are revised, action is taken. Progress, especially of the newer plans, is monitored. If the feedback is negative, plans are adjusted accordingly until the results are satisfactory.
Success After Failure
A familiar example of success after failure is the invention of the Jacuzzi. It was originally marketed as a whirlpool bath for arthritic patients. The feedback was that it was not affordable by the general public. The Jacuzzi brothers re-launched their sales plan, and appealed to the idea of the Jacuzzi as a luxury product for wealthy consumers. And the rest is history.
What separates people who fail from people who succeed? One of the factors is being able to view failure as an opportunity to reevaluate, to learn, and to plan accordingly, while not taking the failure personally. For anyone who wants to achieve their plans, learning how to deal with failure is a priority.
Working Through Fear and Failure
As this article points out there are associated feelings with failure. Anger, despair, hopelessness, to name a few.
You get to the point where you are afraid to try anymore, the fear of failing is to much. Sin and fear are partners, without sounding redundant, if you don’t understand how sin works it will be hard to overcome.
When I created this site, Sin No More, I wanted to put a face on the negative forces we encounter in life. If we understand and acknowledge the influence these forces have on us, we can do things to guard against it and make life better. It’s really that simple.
It’s no fun going through life always feeling sad and defeated. Now that you have some insight into the cause of these feelings (and if you believe in what I am saying), then you have a choice, a choice to allow SIN to continue haunting you or you can take control of your future by beginning to change your thinking, everything starts with HOW YOU THINK.
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