Celebrate your success but embrace your failure
Most of us are obsessed with achieving success. Nobody wants to fail. We have grown up seeing that a successful person is always appreciated while a person who fails often is neglected. We have a very wrong notion about failure induced in our minds from the beginning. But the truth is that failure paves a path towards success.
Whenever we achieve success we are delighted and celebrate our success with great joy. Whereas in case of failure we feel dejected and enter a state of misery. Is failure that horrible? Is it the end of your life? Has your world come to an end? No, its just a beginning of your journey in discovering your potential and creating a new version of yourself — Myself-2.0 version.
Failure is a blessing in disguise. How? Failure makes you self-aware, it is like a mirror reflecting your strengths and weaknesses. We get so busy in achieving success that we often forget who we are and what we are capable of? It’s an indicator showing us that we are not yet ready to succeed and need to work on ourselves. Failure teaches you much more than success will ever do. It plays a key role in developing growth mindset. When you fail you always do retrospection — what went well ? what went wrong? Where I need to improve? Next time you work harder, smarter than before and are not scared of failing again because you embrace failure. You take it as an opportunity to grow and become a better version of yourself. Had you succeeded in your first attempt you would have never bothered to retrospect yourself. In growth mindset terminology there are no terms as Failure and Success. Instead two phrases are used — Not yet (used for you have not yet achieved your goal) and Yet (used for target achieved). This ensures that a person develops a positive attitude towards failure and success instead of taking failure as a hindrance.
Success and Failure are both momentary, it depends on our attitude how we perceive them. We should stop seeing failure as a negative term or perceiving it as a setback. Instead treat failure as an important part of your journey which is there to make your stronger, wiser, resilient and more self-ware than before.
