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Failure: The Great Teacher
by Linda-Ann Stewart
Have you ever fallen off your diet, not reached your monthly financial target, or had a relationship fall apart and felt like a failure? Most people have had some experience of not meeting their goals or expectations and feeling discouraged. There's no shame in not hitting your mark or having a setback. Everyone has disappointments when they're making progress. You can't have success in anything without a few mis-steps. Failure is a valuable teacher.
Failure Isn't Final
Author Robert Allen said, "There is no failure. Only feedback." An infant falls many times before they finally walk. Each time they fall, they strengthen their muscles and improve their balance. An entrepreneur generally makes several attempts before their business is a success. With each failure, they learn more, such as where to focus their marketing efforts.
When someone is changing their eating habits, they're going to have multiple slip-ups their new habits become permanent. They may discover that they need to have other tactics in place. No matter what you're striving for, the lesson is to learn from your mistakes and apply that to your next endeavor.
How to Learn from Failure
Instead of viewing failure as the end of your quest, view it as feedback. Consider that there are still things for you to know, understand and implement before you can reach your goal or vision. When you shift your perception from being dejected that things didn't work out as you expected, to it being a learning experience, you take back your power and control. And when you reclaim control, you reduce stress and open up to having more resources to innovate. And more Universal Good can flow to and through you.
Once you've changed your position towards the situation from failure to experience, you can ask yourself some questions, such as:
- What tripped me up?
- What can I learn from this?
- What can I do differently next time?
These questions trigger your subconscious mind, which is a problem solver, to find the answers. You can then use those answers to formulate how to do better next time. Each setback is a step forward, if you use it constructively. When you choose to learn from your experience, there is no failure, only feedback.
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As a focus mentor, hypnotherapist, and writer, Linda-Ann Stewart motivates women to focus and transform their business through deliberate actions that break through distraction and overwhelm to greater success, freedom, wellbeing and prosperity. Register for her FREE Design Your Best Day guide and guided meditation at www.Linda-AnnStewart.com/guide.html. You can contact her at LAS@Linda-AnnStewart.com or 928-600-0452.
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