How to Handle Failure - Use Your Fear of Failure to Grow

One of the core components of all successful business people is the art of Failure as part of growth. In life, failure can be your friend. It is not something to fear but to embrace. Failure as part of growth will enable you to become far more than the sum of your parts.


So many of us have grown up being told that we must 'win' in everything that we do or else we will lose everything. Yet this is just the false logic of a world that is cruel to its children. Failure as part of growth will help us see failure as an opportunity and not as a threat. If we accept that we will fail and then deal with it by improving our methods, our tactics and our follow through then we will grow. Failure as part of growth enables us to make mistakes, learn from them and move on.

The first step to understanding failure as part of growth is to look at what drives us to avoid it. It could be anything from fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of looking like a fool, fear of impurity, fear of looking foolish, fear of failure, fear of ridicule, fear of embarrassment or many other factors. You are the only one who can help yourself to accept failure. The world will not help you.

Once you understand your fears, you are well on the way to making progress towards success. Failure as part of growth will enable you to look at all the valuable lessons that you can learn from your failures. These valuable lessons can then become your road map to success. You will understand what it takes to get through each particular failure. As you become more aware of these valuable lessons, your understanding of failures will increase and you will welcome failure as part of your growth.

Another useful technique to help you handle failure better is to acknowledge that even the most successful person has had failures. Next time you see a failure in your business, or any other aspect of your life, take note of what went wrong. Next time you see something that you failed to do not let it define you for the next time you try. Instead, use it as a learning experience. Next time you fail at something do not quit. Instead, use the experience to become better at the thing you failed at the previous time.

All of these techniques to embrace and appreciate failure are useful in their own right. They are also designed to help you grow through failure. One important thing that all of these techniques teach us to do is to acknowledge failure as a necessary part of growing. We all have failures. Now we just need to embrace the ones we can and deal with them.

The importance of embracing your failures cannot be overstated. In fact, by embracing the absolute worst mistake you can make with you will be a much stronger person to deal with all of life's little problems. You will also have an enormous advantage when trying to get your businesses, and your lives, off the ground. This is because, by embracing your failures you are showing that you can rise above them and still continue to strive for your goals. As we mentioned earlier, you can use your failures as stepping stones to become even more successful. By making your mistakes you will have made a powerful statement that you are not doomed to failure, and that by embracing your failures you can become one of the greatest success stories of all time.


Finally, the last step in getting past your fear of failure is to figure out how to channel that fear in a way that will help you grow. Failing at something will always give you that sense of failure. However, by handling that failure you can use that feeling of failure to become a tool that helps you grow. In other words, if you can't manage to handle your fear of failure then channel it in a positive way that will allow you to grow.