FAILURE IS JUST PART OF THE PROCESS

THE BIG PICTURE

You need to study failure if you want to really understand success. Most of us are quick to label isolated situations that failed to work out as anticipated as a downright disaster. It is difficult to understand why we have this strange tendency to allow isolated events to warp and destroy the “big picture” in our minds. How many times have I not seen how relationships flirted with disaster because of a so-called major mistake that one of the partners made. Years of faithful and loyal support and service to such aggrieved partner are simply flushed down the toilet. We have a tendency not to allow any person to build up credits that can be drawn on when mistakes are made. If a mistake is made it usually leaves the mistake maker with a massive overdraft in the other person’s emotional data bank. The horrible thing is that we do not only do this to others, but we do it to ourselves as well.

MOST PEOPLE THINK THAT WINNERS AND CHAMPIONS HARDLY EVER FAIL OR MAKE MISTAKES

 

Failure cannot be avoided and will follow you around for the rest of your life like your shadow. You are putting unfair pressure on yourself and others if you suffer with the mind-set that failure can be eradicated. How will we ever grow and learn if we made no mistakes. In fact, you should view every mistake that you ever made not as failure, but like a lesson that you learned. The problem with lessons is that you usually repeat mistakes until you have fully learned your lesson. If we fail to learn our lessons, we as a rule discover that the lessons get harder and more difficult all the time. Remember when you make a mistake or fail it is not sin or a sign that God is testing you. You are not under attack by the dark forces of Satan my friend. You are simply busy learning new disciplines at the university of life.

 

FAILURE IS JUST PART OF THE PROCESS

 

We often tell people that success is a journey and not a destination. What people fail to grasp is that failure is also a journey and not a destination. When you fail today, it does not mean that it is the end of the road for you. Your journey through life will contain many success and failure moments. There is no real purpose to remain on a failure station too for long. Learn your lesson and continue with your journey.

 

YOU ARE THE ONE THAT MUST DECIDE

 

When you fail or fall short of your objectives you are faced with a choice. You can “label” the mistake or failure as a disaster or you can acknowledge your failure, learn from it and get your show back on the road. Losers amplify even the simplest of lessons into catastrophic proportions. Others might blow a mistake that you made to horrific proportions, but it only becomes a disaster when you accept this classification. Some of the most outstanding inventions in life came about after someone made a serious mistake.

 

PEOPLE VIEW FAILURE AS THE DARK ENEMY FORCE THAT IS OUT TO GET YOU

 

Failure can only hurt you if you make a conscious choice to view it as a disaster and not a lesson. Once you labelled failure with the “disaster” or “failure” label, it begins to erode your soul. Champions never create or facilitate these failure monsters in their minds. They know that they hold the key to its power in their hands. They almost never view any failure as final and irreversible. They accept that their plan possibly took a direct hit, but they never admit final defeat. The reason why they never admit defeat is not because they live in denial, but because they know that, there is always a way out of the disaster zone.

 

Remember the final choice is always yours when it comes to failure. You can fall apart or see it as just another lesson presented to you by the University of Life. The key is not what happened, but how you responded to what happened to you! If you continue to view failure as the disastrous end to something, you will remain its victim forever. Champions do not view failure as an incurable disease. They hold the antidote in their hands. The antidote is to never empower failure.

 

Rene