None of us like to feel like failures. Whether you’ve failed multiple times in the past or you’re experiencing your first real sense of failure – it just doesn’t feel good. But it’s a part of life. It’s part of the road to progress. And getting back up is essential to moving forward towards success. It hasn’t always been easy for me or my family to get ahead and accomplish our goals. But we’ve kept moving forward and that’s where the truth of it all lies. If you’re ready to get up and move on to better things, read on for some basic tenets of resilience.
How to Back up After a Failure
Feelings of failure can happen from issues at home, at work, with your children or your partner and even between the best of friends. It can be a painful process; leaving you feeling like giving up or turning around is your only option. But, in truth – failure helps you learn, pick yourself up and move on to your next challenge. Think of it this way: if you never experienced the true sense of failure, how would you understand success? If you’re feeling frustrated and like you’ve failed yourself or others – no worries – you can turn it around. Here’s a look at how to get back up and back at it after a failure.
- Remind yourself that you aren’t alone. The world is full of people – many of whom have experienced failure. Some people have failed time and time again, only to get back up and go after their dreams all over again. Part of understanding failure includes using it to your advantage – it happens, you move on and you let that frustration fuel your next move just like many of the world’s most successful people.
- Think back to all the times you have had successful experiences to draw upon. Failure is part of the process that eventually leads to something completely great and wonderful – and that means understanding how your past successes can fuel your drive to turn a failure into a learning experience. You can also think back to past failures and remind yourself how you picked back up, turned it around and moved on to the next challenge.
- Use your failure to help you make some major life choices. Have you been waffling about a relationship or work scenario where you haven’t been able to decide how to make your next move? Use a recent failure to help point you in the direction of where you actually want to be. Maybe it’s time to move on from that relationship or perhaps this is your cue to change up the structure at work. Whatever that big decision is let the failure drive decision and process to eventually achieve success.
In the moment, failure can feel devastating. It has the power to make you believe that you can’t pick yourself up or that you have met the end of the road for that particular situation. But remember: you drive all of your decisions – and that includes how you handle both success and failure. You want to make a change in your life? Are you ready for more? Face that failure head on and use those frustrated feelings as power to make big things happen. Will you go for it?
