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5 Ultimate Things to Do to Deal With Failure

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5 Ultimate Things to Do to Deal With Failure

Failure is something that is inevitable yet everyone tries to dodge it. You are going to fail in many things throughout your life because the path to success always makes pit stops at failure junction. Why not embrace it and learn to use it as an advantage. When you start accepting failure, the lessons you learn from those experiences are priceless. So, let’s talk about how to deal with failure.

1. Don’t Create Excuses For Every Failure

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”

– Jordan Belfort

Not everything you do will meet a successful conclusion. Many of the decisions you take in life will not only tank but can also drag you into depression. But remember to never create any excuse for such failures. Instead, accept failure as it is, learn what went wrong, and try to adapt yourself so that you can fulfil your goal the next time. 

For example, if your company assigned you the task of capturing 25% of market share in a particular locality, and you failed to do so, focus on what went wrong and how you can improve. Don’t create excuses like ‘the company did not assign the required budget’ and so on. 

It may be true that the company may not have given the required budget, but using that as the sole reason for your failure and overlooking personal shortcomings like improper planning and failure to lead will never turn you into a worthy successful person.

2. Stop Blaming Others For Your Mistakes

5 Ultimate Things to Do to Deal With Failure

Never blame others for your mistake. Never. Period. This is especially true if you are the leader of a team, and your group has failed in any of their tasks. In such a situation, if you pin all blame on your teammates, trying to justify your standing to superiors and stakeholders, then not only will you appear an unworthy leader, but you can forget about ever achieving success.   

Being successful is not just about your own talent, it is also about the support of the team around you. No one achieves anything alone. Remember that. If you aim to be at the top, you will need loyal team members who will do everything they can to make you reach the top and stay there. And that loyalty can only be earned if you treat them with due respect, and of course, recognition. 

As such, if during a failure, you squarely put all blame on them, they will only consider you an opportunist, and someone who is unworthy of their loyalty. Take full responsibility for the failure and give them credit for success. Even if your team members have committed certain faults, hold yourself responsible and avoid shifting blame. 

This alone will be sufficient to earn respect, and your teammates will work even harder to make sure the next task is completed successfully.

3. Avoid Being a Control Freak

5 Ultimate Things to Do to Deal With Failure

Never be a control freak. When you are assigned with any specific task, split it into smaller tasks, and assign the best people for the job. Trust them to do their work properly, and guide them in case they make mistakes. 

Avoid trying to control every single action assuming that only you can do the task perfectly. If you carry such an attitude, then you won’t have any good members remain on your team for too long since talented people do not like being constantly watched over and told what to do. So, give up such behaviors and learn to trust the people under you. By doing that, you will have a better chance of keeping talented people in your team for longer and achieving success. 

Success is a process. It has numerous components and one of the main parts is to attain the loyalty of a professional team behind you. This team will be critical in achieving your success. 

4. Stop Expecting Life to Be Fair

“If we keep telling that life is unfair but do nothing serious about it, then life will forever continue to remain unfair!”

-Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is not fair. Don’t be naïve as to assume that when you do something right, you deserve and will receive a positive result. Unfortunately, the world does not work that way. So, give up on such silly notions.

Instead, look at any task ahead of you from multiple perspectives. Plan for all types of consequences, without being fixated on a lone positive outcome. And by doing so, you will always be ready to meet any consequences, no matter how wildly they differ from your expectations.

Think about scenarios where your planning goes wrong, and the results achieved are far from perfect. Plan on steps to undertake when such things happen, and you will be well-prepared. As they say, hope for the best, and plan for the worst.

5. Meet Problems Head-On

 5 Ultimate Things to Do to Deal With Failure

And finally, don’t run away from problems. Don’t avoid them as if they don’t matter. That is a sure-fire way to remain a loser all through your life. No one achieved greatness by avoiding problems. Be stoic about obstacles. Obstacles will reveal paths you wouldn’t have considered otherwise.

Great people are successful and are admired by many people as being a success because they faced all problems head-on instead of running away from it. So, if your business is tanking, then have the courage to first acknowledge that your decisions were wrong. 

If you acknowledge that the business is failing, then you can think of ways to reverse the situation. But if you don’t even accept that reality, then you are guaranteed to fail. A person with such an attitude will never amount to anything. Mainly because they can’t accept the reality in front of them, and keep on avoiding the biggest obstacles.

And even if they achieve success, they will not be able to maintain it. So, develop a character that confronts all problems that come in the way of your goal, and you will have a better chance of being a successful person. 

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

– Winston S. Churchill

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