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Worried that you’re going to fail at life? Instead of worrying, embrace it. It may just turn into something positive for you instead.
Life is full of interesting twists and turns, wins and losses…
That is a concept that my brain simply can’t understand.
Since we were young, we’ve always been told to do our best and in my case, be the best. Each day, we have to try to either succeeded in something, anything or come to terms with failing at another.
Why You Should Allow Yourself to Fail at Life
Finding a way to be successful in life can be really hard. Like scary, doubting your every thought and action kind of hard. It can be difficult to know what motivates us to strive to be successful.
How can I be okay with not succeeding?
Finding the answer to questions about what leads us to follow our dreams or what stops us still in our tracks can be difficult to do. Asking those questions yourself can be hard, too.
Often times, we don’t want to ask ourselves why we aren’t following our dreams, our goals, and our ambitions because we don’t want to know the answer…
But, it’s an important one to ask.
Dig deep to truly comprehend your emotions. If your roadblock in moving forward in life is because of the fear of failing, cast that doubt to the side.
In my opinion, there are times in life where failure can be helpful. I know, hard to imagine…but, it’s true.
Failure allows growth.
If you don’t try, how will you ever know what the outcome could have been?
Sitting complacently in life and not trying new things may be fine for some, but if you are wanting to take a risk, you have to be prepared for the possibility of failing.
When I decided that I wanted to launch my business from home and that it wasn’t a side hustle anymore, that was scary as shit. Was I really going to quit everything I was doing and do something that could potentially screw me over so bad? Or worse, cause me to fail at something I really loved to do?
Yes.
Because I knew that I wouldn’t be so scared to fail if there was a chance that I could actually make it and run my own business at 22. So, I took a chance and I had some failures but I also had some big wins!
Failing doesn’t mean the dream or hope is over, it just means that what you tried the first time didn’t work.
Lesson learned.
Failure shows correctable flaws.
There is always a reason why something failed.
Not enough time and effort put in to help your business succeed? Didn’t study enough or apply the attention your homework needed so you failed a class? Yeah, I can see why…
When something fails, see if’s it’s correctable.
That failure can actually open up your eyes and your mind to think of different ways to obtain the results you are wanting. Maybe you introduced a service that no one bought, failing to make any profit on your hard work.
You believe you have a good product, so you now know that the price of your product may be an issue. Due to failing to sell any on your first launch, you were equipped with the knowledge to adjust the price to re-launch at a more attractive price point.
You corrected a flaw from your experience.
Failure can be a great motivation.
If you are a competitive person, lack of success may just be the little boost of motivation that you need.
Many people can use failure as a source of internal motivation, refusing to accept the fact that their idea/thoughts/or product have failed. In turn, this creates a passion for success.
To set up a better gameplan, using your unsuccessful ways from the past, you can create a strong foundation based off of positive goals (I can show you how to set up some positive goals 👉here!)
Failure is relatable.
Those who fail together understand the process of overcoming.
Some awesome networking opportunities exist by meeting and communicating with others who have failed. Being able to talk to some and relate to someone is an amazing life experience.
Speaking with each other about how you both failed, and comparing notes on those failures, should be an extremely interesting conversation.
Failure takes away fear.
Once you fail, that’s it..you’ve failed and you know what it feels like, what to expect.
Moving forward, when you fail again, it won’t be such a scary thing as it was the very first time. Fear of failure can freeze anyone…but once you know how to identify with the failure, you can then put a plan in motion to prepare for the next time it happens again.
In my opinion, we all fail. No one is above failing at SOMETHING in life.
We are all human, we all make mistakes that we shouldn’t have made that resulted in our lack of success. It happens.
What we do following that failure is key.
Understanding and identifying that failure is NOT the end to all ends but a great mindset to try to incorporate into life.
Failure can have a positive outcome, once the process of failing is known.
When life has an opportunity and hands it to you, don’t back down. Take those opportunities, think of a way to make them work for you and try again.
Your failure can possibly help you succeed in your future!
2 COMMENTS
brainembryos
6 years agoI love this! Yes! Embrace failure for all the reasons you’ve mentioned. Developing a less fearful relationship with failure has really helped me make progress, open myself up to unknown opportunities and feel less afraid. Thanks for this!
carlanatali
6 years agoI couldn´t agree more.
The road to success goes through failure.
I guess the most important thing that I´ve learned from my failures is that nobody really cares if you succeeded or failed so you shouldn´t waste so much energy wondering what they´re saying about it and even if they do say anyting about it, that should never stop you from trying again because those criticizing you probably never had the guts to try.