Failure Is Not An Option
Failure is not an option. Why not? Who says so?
The pressure to succeed and never fail has become so ingrained in society that its effects have caused many of us to suffer stress-related illnesses and the death of a dream. Failing has taken on such a stigma that just the thought of it can turn the most confident student into an insecure bundle of nerves.
We can become trapped in the idea that the status quo is always better than the possibility of failure. When did failing become such a devastating life event that the thought of possibly failing can spin us into a deep depression? Why has failing become such a taboo that it can cause a seismic shift in thinking that we are not even allowed to say the word in our workplaces? The pressure to succeed has always been there, but have we allowed the idea of success to become an idea that does not included the F word. IF you are going to have any level of success in life you need to be ready to embrace the idea that failure will happen along the way.
What I do know is that failing is normal and it needs to be embraced as such. You need to let our kids and your teammates and yourself experience it. You need to accept that failing does not mean that you are a failure. It simply means that something happened in such a way that you didn’t get the expected outcome you anticipated. It’s that simple. Nothing more, nothing less.
Changing the way we view and feel about failure isn’t easy but it is going to be required if you want to experience something new and different in your life and your business.
Failure is a symptom of something else — it is not you.
Today Create a new relationship with the word “failure.”
When we think of the word “failure” our minds have learned to insert negative thoughts like stupid, loser, bad, no good, useless, less than, wrong, idiot, disappointment, etc. We have given the word “failure” too much power. Take back that power and replace negative self-talk with words like learning, useful, self-discovery, gratitude and rewarding. By reframing the way you relate to the word you will be able to distance yourself from the negative emotions that our mind wants us to accept and move towards your success.
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