Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Failure, a stepping stone to success

All of us want to have success and we will welcome success with open arms. On the other hand, many people are trying hard not to fail and they are afraid to be a failure.The truth is that success and failure come in as a "package" which can't be seperated.How can you experience success if you never experience how it is to be a failure, right?Only when you triumph over your failure, you can tell yourself that you've achieve success.

When we make a mistake or fail in something, we will feel disappointed,sad and confuse.Very often we are angry to ourselves.If we have those kind of feelings, it is alright for us to express our sadness through tears, sharing with family members or friends that we trust, may be shout aloud at an open field or any other expressions.All of that are normal because as a normal person, we all have feeling and emotion.
What's not right is when we put ourselves down into continual sadness and depression.And we can't bring ouselves up to move on, We become afraid of more failures to come if we move on.

We should not be afraid when failure come, because we know that failure is part of success and failure is the best teacher. More than that there are many positive things that we can learn from our failures.
We all heard of these sayings many many times, in fact so many times that we treat it as void. We didn't really value what is the real meaning behind it.
Of course it is always easier to say than to do it. But remember that We should not be afraid of failure. Instead, we need to know how we should react when failure come.Let's really take some time to ponder on few things that we can do:


Admit.
First of all we need to admit that we are failing.
Because if you don't, it's impossible to move on to the next step.You won't be willing to listen to any other advise because you think you are still going to success when you know exactly that you are failing.There are many signs when we are failing, for example: bad performance review, communication problem, relationship problem, temper problem, etc.

Evaluate.
After admitting that we are failing, next step is to evaluate ourselves, where we have done wrong.Evaluation can be done by looking back at things that we have done and then analyse where the problem lies.

Correction and Change.
We then study the result of our evaluation. Write down some corrections and necessary changes that we can do to help us get up from our failures.

Planning.
Then we can make a proper planning. Plan to anticipate possible problems that can occur, and if possible use them as a stepping stone to achieve our success.

Action.
A proper plan have to be executed. Planning without action have no value. So, having planning all, next step is to execute it, that is action.
Life goes on even if you fail, so Let's continue to move on after every failure.

Many famous people around the world, people who change the world's history are people who achieved their success after a few failures. They have proven that failure and success come as one package.They have learned something important from their failures. So, if failures come, don't lose heart, don't be discouraged, learn something out of it and use it as a stepping stone to achieve your next success.

Many wise people use failures as a motivation to reach their success.When failures come, they didn't sit down, look around, and regret their life. But they stand up and try to fix their mistakes until they achieve what they wanted.
How about you?



"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall"
-Oliver Goldsmith-

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What if people made a wrong decision and drown into a failure and there is no way to turn back or perhaps too late to turn back?