We all experience failure and regret in our lives, because no on is blessed with success all the time. No one enjoys talking about their failures or their regrets because these experiences hurt.
In this article, I am going to share three ways to view failure and regret that will help you generate more success and limit your pain.
1. Turning thought to action: Failure can cause people to freeze, and withdraw. The longer you wait to react to your thoughts of regret or failure, the harder it becomes to take action. Remember that you only fail when you give up. So take that negative thought, and turn it into action. What is the next thing you need to do to find pursue success? Define it, and then do it.
2. Turning failure to learning: Great discoveries usually come from examining failures. Learning why something did not work can often lead to an idea for another way. Hiding from failure will keep you from finding that other path. We all have failures, but the value is in looking for a discovery in our failures.
3. Using reflection: Reflection is a great tool for evaluating our activities and results. I think that most people are not good at reflection because they lack the discipline to do it every day. If we reflect only when we have a bad day, then our reflection process is less developed, less practiced, less sensitive to all of our experiences. If we reflect on our experiences every day, then we become skilled in learning from those experiences. And we will be better equipped to understand the bad days.
Failure and regret is unavoidable, but how you experience and react to those situations can greatly affect your level of success. You have failed only if you give up. Your feelings of regret are birthed only when you stop trying. You are in control, if you take control of these situations. They both hurt, but you can lessen the pain.
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