Facing Challenges – How do you deal with failure?

Facing challenges is a huge part of life especially when talking about goals related to business, school, sports, etc. When you are faced with the task of stepping out of your comfort zone and facing challenges, it’s important that you take the time to look at the patterns that you are following. In other words, how are you dealing with failure? These patterns or reactions could be the very reason why you are not moving forward. They may also be the main contributor to the lack of success that you are currently experiencing. We must understand what is happening in our minds when facing challenges.

What separates people who enjoy frequent success from the majority who end up never getting what they want? It’s how they respond to failure! How you respond when facing challenges plays a huge role in your ability to succeed over the long term! Let’s take a look at the 3 different ways that people respond when facing challenges.

3 Ways People Respond when Facing Challenges

Give Excuses. Blame Others. Give up.

What do some people do when they don’t get what they want? They will start making up excuses and blaming everything and everyone around them.

Feeling helpless and frustrated, this first group will stop taking action and give up! They will resign themselves to their goal being out of reach and live a life of mediocrity.

Keep Trying the Same thing Over and Over Again.

This group of people are those who have a lot more determination than the first group. When they don’t get their outcome, they will not quit. They will to take action again. The mindset for this group is, “I failed because I did not try hard enough.” They put forth more time and effort using the same approach. No matter how many times they fail, they just keep trying harder and harder.

Although this group continues to take action, they do not change their strategy. If you keep using the same approach, you are going to keep getting the same result. Many people repeat this limiting pattern. Remember the definition of insanity? “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein

Get Feedback. Change Strategy. Take Action until you Succeed.

So what is the pattern that all successful individuals exhibit? When they don’t achieve their goals, they don’t think of it as failure. Instead, they perceive it as feedback. Either feedback that the strategy they used was ineffective or that they did not take enough action. They then use this feedback to immediately change their strategy and take action again.

If they still don’t succeed, they will get more feedback, change their strategy and take action again. They keep repeating this process until they get what they want. They do whatever it takes. So, remember, every time you don’t get what you want, it is life giving you feedback. It is this continuous feedback you need to help you adjust your approach until you hit your target.

Successful people change their approach as necessary whenever they encounter failure. They understand that facing challenges is part of the road to success. If you understand this principle you will be able to overcome failure and achieve success in no time at all.