the journey to success starts with failure

We’ve all had those moments in life where things don’t go as planned. The difference between someone who achieves their goals, and someone who doesn’t, is how many times you are prepared to fail. Have you ever stopped to consider how many times you are willing to fail? We’re always set on succeeding and achieving, but for many, when failures strikes, we can be deterred and stop chasing that dream.

We are all eager to succeed, but are afraid of failure, because we think it’s a bad thing. Quite the contrary, failure is a stepping stone to success – it exposes you to your weaknesses. As humans, our weaknesses are the source of our strength; our failures are the root of our successes. This is not another motivational cliché, but a fact of history and science. Evolutionary theorists long ago concluded that the power of the human species lay in its weaknesses.

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The journey to success starts with a series of missteps called failure, everyone fears failure, but breakthroughs depend on it. Learn to embrace failure, it can show you new ways of doing things – you must be willing to learn from failures in order to create success.  From my own personal experience and watching the path of many other successful individuals, I believe that failure is not all that bad; it provides a lesson and it shows us how something’s can’t be done, setting us up for a wiser path moving forward.

In school, the smartest people are those who don’t make mistakes, but does this ideology applies in the real world? In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn from those mistakes. The hard truth about life is, if you don’t fail, it means you are not even trying. So many people are just afraid…..afraid of failing; what if I fail? What if I don’t achieve my said goals? When you are afraid, you don’t try, when you don’t try, you don’t fail and when you don’t fail, you will not succeed – this is a known fact.

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“I see failure as taking a step back to see the bigger picture,” take a few timeouts, re-strategize and have a re-think and just maybe you’d see what’s missing. “Failing to succeed doesn’t make you a failure, but failing to try again……you need to be crucified.” There is no harm in trying, the possible outcome is failure – all it’s going to do is to put you in the right direction, so you come out bigger, better and stronger. As human beings, you know, failure is not a bad thing. Ask yourself, what’s the opportunity from the failure? What have you learnt from the failure? And get in the game, because when you get to the last hour of your last days; it will not be the failures you regretted, but all the risks you didn’t take.