Failure – Embraced By All Truly Successful People

Experiencing failure is a part of the learning process and the lessons gained from it should be embraced to advance future success.

There is a perspective that one needs to keep in mind when things do not go as planned.  That is, people usually experience some degree of failure on the way to success.  The key element of failing is to learn from the challenge, reevaluate, and move forward with renewed determination.  All successful people do this.

When you fail to achieve what you had in mind, you are of no less value.  If you are willing to make mistakes and learn from them, you have actually increased your value by the knowledge you have gained.  If this is your mindset, then it is not necessary to dwell on the fear of failing.  Instead, the focus is on finding a path through, under, or over challenges to reach your destination.

Perhaps in the process you have discovered a route to avoid, or a new path has been revealed, or new resources of help have appeared.  When people succeed in acquiring their goals, it is because they persisted toward the desired end result in spite of the obstacles that surfaced.  It is very rare when unexpected challenges do not occur when pursuing a worthwhile endeavor.

Successful people often consider their failures as their greatest lessons toward achievement.  Winston Churchill was known to say that “ … success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”  Does that offer a new perspective on failure?