What can you tell me you failed at today? That’s awesome! Is it possible to think of mistakes that way?
Mistakes are inevitable and are an important part of the learning process in life.
Unconfident people hang on to their mistakes versus learning from them and moving on.
Only those who have ceased to move forward never make a mistake.
Learn to reframe failure as something useful and important for the growth of your self-confidence and for your overall growth as a person.
Four New Ways to View Failure
- See failure as a learning experience, not as something horrible. When standing in the middle of a failure, ask: What’s awesome about this situation? What can I learn from this situation?
- You gain experiences you couldn’t get any other way. Sometimes you just have to fail on your own to learn a lesson and to gain an experience that no one can relate to you in mere words.
- You become stronger. Every time you fail, you realize more that it’s not the end of the world. Failing means you at least took a chance. You didn’t just sit on your hands doing nothing, and that took quite a bit of courage and determination.
- Your chances of succeeding increases. Every time you fail you can learn and increase your inner strength. So every failure can make you more and more likely to succeed.
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple,
really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy
of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can
learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because
remember that’s where you will find success.”
It’s a GAME we are always playing, but one that can get us in trouble.
