“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”
Peter T. Mcintyre
“I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.”
Allen H. Neuharth
You have to face your fear. Because it is only then that you discover the thing that billions of people throughout history have discovered before you. Failure won’t kill you. Nor will being wrong. The sky will not fall down. That’s just what people that haven’t faced their fear yet think.
The thing is to reframe failure from being something that makes your legs shake to something useful and important for the growth of your self confidence and your overall growth as a human being. Here are four ways that failure can help you out:
- You learn. Instead of seeing failure as something horrible you can start to view it more as a learning experience. When standing in the middle of a failure, you can ask yourself questions like: What’s good about this situation? What can I learn from this situation?
- You gain experiences you could not get any other way. Ideally, you probably want to learn from other people’s mistakes and failures. That’s not always easy to do though. Sometimes you just have to fail on your own to learn a lesson and to gain an experience no one can relate to you in mere words.
- You become stronger. Every time you fail you become more accustomed to it. You realise more and more that it’s not the end of the world. You can handle things that would have been very hard to handle a few years back. Failing can also be an exhilarating component because even though you failed you at least took a chance. You didn’t just sit on you hands doing nothing. And that took quite a bit of courage and determination.
- Your chances of succeeding increases. Every time you fail you can learn and increase your inner strength. So every failure can make you more and more likely to succeed.
Failing is a good thing, make lots of mistakes, learn from them and you will succeed. As one of my rugby coaches told me at the start of the season. “The next eight weeks are about making as many mistakes as possible, but we have to learn from them and learn from them quickly and move on”. That year we went onto win the league and the cup.
Being a Scentsy Consultant in Ireland and being a Scentsy consultant in the UK, we are learning from mistakes every day. Learning from these mistakes though will ultimately give us a great platform for our success.
Please feel free to comment below about what mistakes you are scared of making.
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