FAILING FORWARD

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of failure. There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really one way to be a loser, and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure. Even an optimist has a very difficult time learning how to see failure positively. How a person sees failure and deals with it, whether he possesses the ability to look beyond it and keep achieving impacts every aspect of his life. Yet that ability seems difficult to acquire. Most people don’t know where to start looking to get it.
Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth, and disappointment more normal than arrival. Training for failure is a great concept and it’s the idea that prompted me to write this piece. The objective is to help you learn how to write this piece. The objective is to help you learn how to confidently look at failure in the face and move forward anyway. In life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with problems. The increase of divorce, separation, heartbreaks and even some forms of nervous breakdowns is evidence that many people are training for success, when they should be training for failure. Failure is far more common than success and therefore, deserves more time in our daily lives.
I don’t know what problems you are facing in your life right now. But whatever they are doesn’t matter. What does matter is that your life can change if you are willing to look at failure differently. Every person has the potential and indeed capacity to overcome any problems, mistake or misfortunes. All you need to do is to learn to fail forward. If you are ready to do that, then let us go. Think about a recent setback you experienced. How did you respond? No matter how difficult your problems are, the key to overcoming them doesn’t lie in changing your circumstances. It’s in changing yourself. If you are to do that, then you will be able to handle failure. You should make a commitment to do whatever it takes to fail forward.
One of the greatest problem people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge situations in their lives and label them as failures. They need to keep the bigger picture in mind. You should always keep in mind that failure is not the following:

People think failure is avoidable – it’s not
People think failure is objective – it’s not
People think failure is an event – it’s not
People think failure is the enemy – it’s not
People think failure is irreversible – it’s not
People think failure is a stigma – it’s not
People think failure is final – it’s not
Remember, “it does not matter how much milk you spill as long as you don’t lose your cow”. The problems come when you see only the spilled milk and not the bigger picture. People who correctly see failure take it in stride.

QUOTE FOR TODAY
“I can accept failure but I can’t accept not trying.” – Micheal Jordan