Failure is only feedback

Most of us grow up in a culture where failure is viewed as bad. If you fail at something it is considered a bad thing, something you should be ashamed about. And in the workplace you can feel like an outcast. We ourselves at times may have ridiculed other people for what we perceive to be their failures.
Ask yourself a question .What is failure and is there a message there for us?
Failure is purely feedback. it is life’s way of telling us that we need to change our approach. We need to do something different, to get the result we are looking for. You may ask yourself does history support this? Let’s look at some famous failures,

• Coke - nearly went broke only selling 400 bottles in their first year.

• Dr Seuss – 23 rejection before he sold his 1st book

• Walt Disney - went broke 14 times

• Thomas Edison – 999 failures before he invented the light globe

• Sylvester Stallone – Over 5000 rejection for his move Rocky

All of the above examples would have been considered as failures. Just for one moment imagine what the people around them were saying. Yes, it would not have been complimentary.

This one thing that each of the above people or organisation had in common is the fact they treated failure purely as feedback and changed their approach to what they were doing.

This is the key to creating the change you want in your life, is by starting to see failure as nothing more than feedback and to implement the lessons it is trying to present to you. If you focus on what went wrong, you will never create the change in your life that you want. By standing back and asking yourself, what changes do I need to make to get the outcomes that I want that will move you forward, in ways that you could not now imagine?

Have a fantastic Day

Alex Kalafatis
Managing Director


Ak Coaching & Development - Create the Change
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