HOW TO GUIDE:
How to be prepared for failure and ready for success
There is no doubt that building a successful career is not easy and there will be many hurdles you will have to deal with along the way.
In fact, for those at the start of their career, you are already dealing with one of the worst hurdles – how do I get a job with no experience? How you approach such setbacks is what will define you in your life and career. Therefore, having the right attitude and mindset will be critical to your success.
Mindset is all about how you perceive life and how you deal with it.
A positive mindset is being able to frame things in the right way, being able to view things for how they are and having a realisation that there is an upside to everything in life.
Everyone in their career will have to deal with a sense of failure at some point, be it missing out on a job, not getting a promotion, or not getting due credit for something you did.
How you deal with such scenarios will define how quickly you can bounce back.
Think of failure as the ultimate feedback loop.
Your intentions may have been right, but maybe your plan flawed.
Just go back to your plan and redesign it and then go again.
To quote Thomas Ediso:
“Many of life’s failures are people who didn’t realise how close they were to success when giving up.”
How to create a positive mindset
- Be objective
- Choose to see the good in situations
- Put things in perspective
- Revert to the present moment
- Focus on what you can control
Remember that you are in control of your own destiny.
So many people end up being passengers in life, getting swept along by the tides of life.
Recognising that you are responsible for your actions and taking ownership of that is a powerful concept and a sure catalyst for positive action.
Be persistent
Many people give up when faced with rejection, choosing to accept defeat rather than try again.
As the saying goes “a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins”
Always keep going, never give up. There is no secret to success.
Success is simply having a well thought out plan, coupled with intelligently applied hard work and dedication.
Lastly, getting back to Thomas Edison again.
The man who is credited with inventing the lightbulb famously failed with 10,000 experiments before he finally got it right.
But he didn’t see those 10,000 experiments as failures, instead he said “I have not failed 10,000 times, I’ve successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work”.
Now that was a guy with a positive mindset.