Don’t Fear Failure, Prepare for It Instead

​When we fail at something we feel shame. But we need to understand that it’s only through failure that we become stronger, wiser and smarter. 

Failure is another set of stairs of the same road to success. If you don’t fail you’re not advancing towards your goals and dreams. So keep moving, keep failing and keep succeeding. 

Don’t fear failure

If failure truly existed, then children would be experts at failing. When they fall after trying to walk, they don’t sit down to cry and swear to themselves to never try it again. They don’t. The very next thing they do after a fall is to try again with the knowledge from the last fall.

And that’s exactly what we should be doing. We have the knowledge from the last failure, we’re stronger, wiser and smarter, but then, why do we stop trying again? I say because the pain and shame of the fall is stronger than the desire to reach the goal.
Don’t let that happen to you. Always make your desire to reach a goal stronger than the fear of failure. 

Consider failure in your road to success

If your fear of failure is strong it’s because you have not considered the necessary failures within your road to success. If you consider failure and are prepared for it, then there would be no pain. There would just be an awareness that something needs to be done differently and you would keep working on your goal.

You don’t have to worry about what others think and say. It’s not like we have an audience following us around everywhere we go to boo us when we fail or clap when we succeed at something. And if you do, don’t worry, people’s attention span these days is very short.

Remember, you don’t have to carry unnecessary shame in your life. So, just focus and do your thing. After much thought and planning, work at it again and again until you achieve what you so much desire. Who knows, maybe in one of those “failures” you find something new.

Fail like the experts

​I hope these enlightening quotes from experts at failing will help you feel empowered and motivated to continue working on your goals. And what’s best than to begin with Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the electric light bulb.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." – Thomas A. Edison

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.” – Dee Hock

​Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Zig Ziglar

​Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.” – Henry Ford

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

​Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” – Tony Robbins

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." – Margaret Thatcher

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." – Oscar Wilde​

​When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” – Ellen DeGeneres

People who avoid failure also avoid success.” - Robert T. Kiyosaki

​There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." – Dale Carnegie

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning." – Robert Kiyosaki

Failures are opportunities to improve what you've done so far." – CLI

​Do you want a successful life? Then prepare to fail. Although there are different types of failure, the purpose of failure is still the same: to grow.

So instead of being afraid of failure, plan for it and focus more on the feeling of achievement, progress and fulfillment; and watch yourself grow the next time you fail.
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