FALLING UP!

FALLING UP!

The most distressing thing in life is when we fail to achieve something which we desire the most. Failure is often perceived as a negative word and failure is something which people try to avoid like plague. Every person on this planet wants to be successful. I have never met a person in my life who said, “ I plan to fail tomorrow”. Everyone wants to be successful. No person ever wants to fail. But we have made success so much a priority in our life that when we fail, we do not know how to manage that failure. Failure is not the end of the road. Rather, it is just a detour to success and must be conceived in that manner only.

Every single person that achieved something great and became successful in some area of life did so, not because they managed that failure effectively. They did not mourned or cried over that failure rather they learned from it and moved on to accomplish what they wanted to accomplish.

Here are some things which you must consider when you encounter failure next time;

• Failing to deal with failure effectively is worse than failing at something: The only thing which matters when you fail is how you deal with that failure. Its not important how much great or big your failure is, but how do you manage that failure? Do you loose hope and discontinue to move towards what you wanted to achieve? Do you feel sad and depressed when you fail? Do you loose faith by thinking that everything in life is working against you? Or do you analyze your failure and keep improving your mistakes until you succeed in what you wanted to accomplish? The decision is all up to you, Many great people in the history failed, but they knew the art of managing that failure effectively and turn it into success.

You must know how to manage and control that failure effectively. And this is important because if you cannot manage failure effectively, you will always be filled with the fear of failure. You will be afraid of failure even when you succeed because you don’t know how to manage it. Therefore, never be afraid of failure but learn how to setup failure into a success.

FALLING UP!

• Failure must be seen as a detour or an interruption: Most people perceive failure as an end to the road of their success, However, failure is a temporary problem and a temporary problem should be met with a temporary solution. We should never try to find a permanent solution to a temporary problem. But still this is happening in our society. That’s why, the number of suicide cases across the world are increasing every year. Many students kill themselves every year because of their poor performance in an exam which does not even measure their true potential. Therefore, they find a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

We must be wise enough to know how to deal with the failure. Your success in life is not cancelled by your failure. Failure is a little interruption on  your way to success. We should never take failure heavily. It must be dealt with a temporary solution because its not going to last forever. Life has many seasons. Failure is just a season and seasons change. Therefore, key to success is to hold on the failure and you will soon go through it.

• Perception of True Failure: Having a clear perception of failure is very important. Most of the times, we call something as because it does not meet with the expectations of others. We are much more concerned about what people expect us to do rather than doing what we want to do. Sometimes we connect our failure with our social image or our reputation. We are afraid to try something new because there is some fear of damage to our reputation. We start thinking about what other people will think about us when we fail. We can never maintain the level of our success if we just continue to give priority to other people’s opinions or expectations of us.

FALLING UP!

You do not fail unless you consider it as a failure. I have told earlier that it is important to learn from failure and you either succeed or you learn. There is no such thing as a permanent failure. Its all limited to your mind and your belief system. You never fail unless you believe it.

Failure just gives you the opportunity to relax yourself for some time and think about the possibilities and go through the planning process again. Every great inventor of history failed several times before they succeeded. Wright Brothers failed many times before they made history. Colonel Sanders faced several hardships in life before he founded the KFC at the age of 62!

 Every great success that came has been accompanied by great failures. Its not a big deal if we fail at something because everyone who tries to do something big has failed and will fail. It is just a process to make you strong to handle the big success. So, if you ever fall in life’s journey, never undermine your success due to that, just face it and FALL UP!