Peter Winslow, a life coach in Scottsdale, Arizona, serves as the owner of GoldMind, LLC. The author of four books on healing and self-empowerment, Peter Winslow also assists clients with a range of issues, including overcoming personal failure.
All people make mistakes, but it’s the way you handle those failures that determines how effectively you deal with them. Below are several things to help you accept and overcome personal failures:
Accept your feelings
Just because failure is a regular part of life doesn’t mean you should ignore how it makes you feel. Whether you are hurt or angry, do not push these emotions down. Instead, be okay with how you are thinking and feeling. Letting yourself feel these emotions allows you to accept them and accept your failure and move on.
Just because failure is a regular part of life doesn’t mean you should ignore how it makes you feel. Whether you are hurt or angry, do not push these emotions down. Instead, be okay with how you are thinking and feeling. Letting yourself feel these emotions allows you to accept them and accept your failure and move on.
Be honest with yourself
After you fail, you may search for any distraction to keep you from confronting yourself about what went wrong. Unfortunately, if you do this, you will never learn from your failures and will continue making the same mistakes. Instead, be brutally honest with yourself about what things went wrong so you can prevent them in the future.
After you fail, you may search for any distraction to keep you from confronting yourself about what went wrong. Unfortunately, if you do this, you will never learn from your failures and will continue making the same mistakes. Instead, be brutally honest with yourself about what things went wrong so you can prevent them in the future.
Stop dwelling on it
Learning from your failures is an important part of overcoming these setbacks. However, learning from the past is quite different from dwelling on it. When you dwell on a failure, thoughts can quickly take over your mind and become debilitating in nature. Always remember that you can only shape the future based on your past, but you cannot change the past.
Learning from your failures is an important part of overcoming these setbacks. However, learning from the past is quite different from dwelling on it. When you dwell on a failure, thoughts can quickly take over your mind and become debilitating in nature. Always remember that you can only shape the future based on your past, but you cannot change the past.
