Oops to Aha!

How To embrace failure and learn from them

Hey Everyone,

Sports have a great influence on today’s generation, and it teaches us important lesson.

To win the game, you need play and to play the game you need to accept that you could lose.

In real life we don’t see things this way. We see failure as bad. We tend to avoid them.

While Embracing failure is such a ridiculously important skill one could have to be successful in life.

We all are humans and making mistakes and failing isn’t out of our character. We all have faced certain failures in our lives, maybe not on the same day or the same way but how we chose to react to it is what determines our destiny.

Even though, we usually have a setback after failure. We are so used to live in a culture where failure is seen as taboo, and we started believing it ourselves. But the fact is our ability to fail and learn from them is what makes us human, and We should be treating our lives as a science experiment where a failure is just as valuable as success.

Embrace failures.

The fear of failure not only paralyzes you from trying something new, but it keeps you from discovering your potential and becoming.

Someone you could have been.

Someone you should have been.

but only if things were different. Only if you were willing try something new. Only if you weren’t That afraid to fail.

Let me tell you a story to prove my point.

A technician comes to young girl’s house to fix a TV.

He had guitar with him. The Girl intrigued by the guitar asks him

“Is that guitar yours” “Yeah” Engineer replies

G: “Do you play it”

E: “Very Often”

“Do you?” He asks Back.

G: “I wish”

Hearing that He teaches her some basics and leaves the guitar for her for a night.

That night, she writes her first song.

And the Rest Is History. She becomes one of the most streamed artists and just her one appearance rocket boosts a country economy.

Any Guesses?

The girl was no else than Taylor swift.

That Two Words “I wish” changed her life forever but do you think she wanted to become a singer or musician before she had the seen the guitar. Probably not. She saw the guitar and then she wanted to try it.

She was willing to try new things. She was optimistic to new things. She was an optimist.

And Optimists Thrive.

Some Would Say that’s luck. And yes, it was luck but not blind luck but…….

She was prepared. Most of us aren’t.

Most of us Would Have Said, “Our Parents Can’t afford Guitar Lessons.”

and missed the opportunity.

Here’s the thing,

Letting life happen, following your gut to try new things isn’t enough. The odds are one in a thousand. You might want to push your boundary. What I do here is at start of every weak I make a list of 5 things I might not have done otherwise to try. It shouldn’t have to be a skillset, just something new, something you might never have tried otherwise.

Start Here….

A Book you might never read.

A Podcast you might never think of listening.

A cuisine you should Try.

A movie, you might never watch.

Here is the thing to keep in mind.

Try isn't the affirmation for commitment. If you didn't like you can always stop.

Who knows you might become a bestselling author after you read a popular Paranormal romance series that you might not have read otherwise (try) and ended up absolutely loving it that you decided to (try) write fan fictions about it on a blog. Due to popularity of the book your blog also got popular. After few years your audience might start requesting you for an original book of yours (tried to write on) and that book due to popularity of your blog and luck ended up being a Bestseller.

Or maybe you might find your next favorite in the process. That’s equally rewarding I suppose.

Learn From Them.

Failing is only valuable if you learn from it.

Small failures accumulate and leads to big failures and big failures leads to even big ones. It’s like a cycle and the only way to avoid bigger failures which could be fatal in some situations is to learn to avoid small failures in way that doesn't keeps you from trying new things is what called Failure Journal.

Here’s how it works.

At the end of each you ask yourself three things you failed at, that day. Create a Spread sheet to keep track of it.

At the end of the week, review it and find the kind of failures that appears often.

It might look like this.

I can see that I missed my workout two times a week and slept past my bed three times and also, I am not being wise about my diet.

Now find reasons why you failed on them and how can you avoid failing Next time. If the problem persists, that means either of two things. Either you failed on identifying why you failed, or you failed on applying the right solution. The more you fail on a task means the more data you would have to fix the problem and identifying why you fail.

Forcing yourself everyday of every week to write three things you failed at you are kind of training your brain to see failure from a different Perspective.

Failure as Normal.

Failure as success.

Have A great weak!

Abd Sid

*waves*

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