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Disclaimer
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About the Author
Angela is an entrepreneur and blogger living in Singapore who loves
sharing knowledge and helping others on the topic of self-development
and health and wellness.
Angela is a passionate person who will go the extra mile and over-deliver.
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"I believe that knowledge is power. Everyone should improve themselves
and/or business, no matter what stage in life they're in. Whether it's to
develop a better mindset or to increase profits. Moving forward is key."
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Table of Contents
Disclaimer ............................................................................................... 2
About the Author ..................................................................................... 3
Introduction ............................................................................................. 5
1. Accept the failure and learn from your mistakes .................................. 6
2. Treat failure as the cost of learning ..................................................... 8
3. Work on the necessary skills needed to finally succeed .................... 10
4. Step out of your comfort zone and take risks .................................... 12
5. Don’t listen to naysayers and just believe in yourself ........................ 14
Final Words .......................................................................................... 16
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Introduction
In life, failure often precedes success. You’ll be hard-pressed to find
anyone successful who hasn’t experienced failure before they found
success.
Instead, you’ll hear and read countless stories of people who persevered
and continued working for their dreams even though they’ve failed so
many times.
Failing is the norm, not the exception.
If you find yourself crawling back into the safety of your comfort zone every
time you make a mistake, and abandoning your plans, then you need to
change your attitude.
Truth be told, you will never find success if you treat failure like your worst
enemy.
There are many ways to overcome failure.
In this E-Book, you’re going to be learning five different ways you can
overcome failure and finally succeed in life.
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1. Accept the failure and learn from your mistakes
Learning to embrace and accept your failure is the first step you need to
take. Without coming to terms with your failure, you’re never going to
understand the reasons why you failed. Therefore, you’re never going to
learn from your mistakes.
Embracing failure may sound difficult, but it doesn’t have to be. You just
have to keep in mind that failure is but a necessary step towards success.
When you fail to accept your mistakes, then you’ll find it difficult to move
forward. You’ll get stuck in your comfort zone, and it could be years before
you decide to do anything! That’s a lot of time wasted.
The earlier you come to terms with your failure, the earlier you’ll learn your
lessons and the quicker you’ll find the right path to achieve your dreams.
Also, just because you failed doesn’t mean you’re a failure. If you think of
yourself that way, I’m telling you right now that you’re wrong. You can only
call yourself a failure if you don’t get back up and fight for your dreams.
Failure is not forever unless you choose to make it last forever. If you do,
then you’ll be a certified loser for the rest of your life, to put it bluntly.
Even successful athletes fail from time to time. For instance, this year they
could be at the bottom of their sports league’s ranking. The next year they
could be winning the crown or belt or whatever the champion’s prize is! If
they’ve given up on those seasons they were the league’s laughingstock,
they wouldn’t have ended up as champions.
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People are natural dreamers. We dream of a better life for ourselves and
our families. And we have to work hard to achieve those dreams.
But, success and prosperity are not going to be handed to you on a silver
platter, you have to work hard for it.
Just because you failed on your first or second attempt at providing a
better life for yourself and your family doesn’t mean you should give up.
Instead, you should use your failure as motivation. Use it to give yourself
a healthy dose of reality. Accept failure for what it is, learn from it, and
continue on with your journey.
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2. Treat failure as the cost of learning
Our parents paid for our education. We learned many things in school, but
sometimes textbook education cannot substitute for real-life education.
When you fail - whether in school or in life – that’s real-life education right
there. You’re learning something from your own experience. It wasn’t
taught to you from a book, you learned your lessons the hard way.
The thing with learning through books is that you rarely retain the
information you read about. You probably only memorize the most
important points for your exams. The moment the school year’s over,
you’ll most probably already have forgotten what you’ve learned that year.
Learning from failure is another thing. When you give your all to your goals
or to your dreams, and you fail, it’s going to be painful. Emotionally,
mentally, physically, and maybe even financially painful.
But, the good thing is that the lessons you’ve learned from failing will get
drilled into your heart and your mind. The bigger the failure, the more
impact it has on you, and the more you learn out of it.
It’s how you deal with that lesson that decides your future. If you decide
to put those lessons gleaned from your mistakes to good use, then you
could be making better plans towards your goals. If you don’t use what
you’ve learned, then chances are, you’re just going to fail all over again.
Failing will teach you a lot about yourself and about your character. Think
of failure as your teacher and you as the student.
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When you’ve got a teacher in front of you, you try your best to pay
attention unless you want to come across as a good-for-nothing class
rebel who’s not going to amount to anything in life. As a good student, you
pay attention to your teacher, you take down notes and try to ask relevant
questions.
When you think of failure like that, you’ll be learning a lot more than your
rebel-wannabe classmate, and your probability of success will be much
higher.
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3. Work on the necessary skills needed to finally succeed
One reason why people fail is that they don’t have the skills necessary to
succeed. Whether it’s a technical skill or some other life skill you need to
work on, you need to do so right away. Otherwise, it’s going to put a
damper on your road to success.
You’ll know all about the skills you need to upgrade when you analyse
your past failures. This is why learning to accept and make peace with
failure is so important. It helps you assess and figure out the most
important skills you’re lacking that you should be working on.
For instance, if you’re trying to get your startup off the ground and you’re
looking for investors to help fund your start-up, then you need certain
skills.
You can’t just depend on your passion for your project, you need to have
solid business skills too. You need to have the ability to communicate with
your team, and you need to learn how to delegate jobs to the right people.
You also need to have serious sales skills to sell to potential investors, or
if you don’t have that, then you need the skills to persuade and hire
someone who does.
Since it’s your start-up, you’re going to need leadership skills because
people will be looking up to you, they’ll be following your lead.
There are many more skills you need before you can call your start-up a
success.
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Another example would be if you are an Internet marketer, then you may
need some technical skills. You need to know how to build a website, how
to write enticing web copy, how to create high converting emails and
landing pages, and so on.
If you don’t have the time to learn all those skills, then how about hiring
the right people who can help you out.
When you’ve got a team, you need communications skills so they can
easily understand what you want them to do. You also need to know how
to manage your cash flow now that you’re paying people’s salaries.
The point is that when you do fail, you’ve got to figure out what’s lacking,
and you need to do what must be done – mastering the required skills to
reach your goals and achieve success at last.
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4. Step out of your comfort zone and take risks
We’ve all got our comfort zones. But the truth is, many people hate leaving
it. In fact, they would downright avoid it, if they can.
However, successful people can leave their comfort zones in a heartbeat.
They don’t need to think twice. When it’s time to take risks, they’ll jump
outside their comfort zones, and do what needs to be done.
The people who want to stay in their comfort zones forever are afraid of
taking risks. They are afraid of failing, and they would rather live mediocre
lives than risk anything.
You’re probably asking if these people have dreams. Of course, they do.
But since they’re timid, and they’re scared of stepping outside their
comfort zone, then their dreams often die with them.
Taking risks doesn’t have to mean jumping off a cliff. Risks come in all
sizes. In banking products and financial investments, they categorize
people according to their risk tolerance.
If you’re risk-averse, then they would suggest you invest in a product that’s
low risk and low reward. But if you belong to the opposite end of the risk
spectrum, that is, you’ve got an aggressive risk tolerance, then your bank
would suggest you invest in a high-risk and high-reward product.
The same kind of risk-reward system applies to your dreams too. The
bigger and the more ambitious your goals, the bigger the risks you’re
facing. If you fail, you could end up in huge debt, or you could lose
everything you own. But if you win, you win big-time!
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On the flip side, if you only want to take small risks, then you’ll also lose a
small amount, but you also won’t gain much.
To help overcome failure, it would be best if you take risk one step at a
time. Get used to failing, so to speak.
Over time, when you’ve built up the knowledge, strength and mental
stamina needed to overcome huge risks and catastrophic failures, then,
by all means, take the plunge. It can go either way – you’ll succeed
spectacularly, or you’ll fail.
When you fail, you don’t have to be too worried. After all, you’ll be learning
a lot from the experience, and you can use that newfound knowledge to
guide you until you finally succeed!
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5. Don’t listen to naysayers and just believe in yourself
You’ll never run out of people trying to discourage you from chasing your
dreams. Many people have this ‘crab mentality’ where they don’t want
other people to have what they can’t.
So, they try their best to pull people down with them. If you’ve got people
like this in your family, in your circle of friends, even in your workplace,
don’t hang out with them. Avoid them if you can. Their negativity and their
pessimism will rub off on you, and they will rob you of your dreams if you
give them a chance!
Sometimes, you’ll have an inner voice telling you to stop going after your
dreams. It’s much harder to not listen to a voice in your head than it is with
the people around you. You don’t want to look crazy in front of people, so
do your best to ignore that inner voice.
Actually, one of the best ways you can shut that negative inner voice for
good is by believing in yourself. It’s one of the best remedies for removing
doubt.
Self-belief will help you overcome failure like no other. When you believe
in yourself, you’ll find different methods of motivating and inspiring
yourself.
You don’t even need to look towards others for inspiration. You just have
to look deep inside you, and you’ll find the answers you need.
When you start believing in yourself, all the naysayers around you will see
the change. You’ll become more confident, you’ll be surer of your plans.
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Your belief will manifest itself in your physical behaviour, and that won’t
go unnoticed by your peers.
When you believe in yourself, other people will start believing in you too.
Who knows, you might even influence them to try stepping out of their
comfort zones and chase after their own dreams!
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Final Words
Overcoming failure doesn’t have to be difficult. With the five simple ways
I’ve outlined in this E-Book, you’ll be able to look deep within yourself.
You’ll know that you can overcome past and all future failures that may
come your way.
Your journey to success begins the moment you realize just how powerful
failure is. Continue learning from your mistakes, and pretty soon, you’ll
reach the end of your journey, and you’ll have achieved your dreams!