Ask someone how they feel about failure in the midst of it; life as they know it is over.
Ask someone how they feel about failure one year later; life as they know it has been transformed. 🦋
5 Ways to Feel Strong in the Midst of Failure:
- Take a long deep breath. Be still. Don’t Rush.
- Find a safe place to challenge your fears & beliefs.
- Rest. Take a long walk. Eat a nourishing meal.
- Learn something new. Have Fun! Self-Discover.
- Imagine. Envision. Explore & Begin Again!
Thriving Under Pressure 
At first I may think “ugh now what” temporarily and shift my thoughts to see that failure is really my ally. Great post!
Me too! The key is to give yourself room to breathe & recover. Only then can you transform.✨
Yes! It is the miles we’ve run and the scars from our ‘failures’ that we learn and gain strength from to continue on this beautiful journey. Thanks, Andrea; wonderful post!💖💫
Thanks Pepper! We share a philosophy for teaching & life. Pain is pain. There is no denying that fact. Yet magically inside the scars – we learn, we rise up, and we become stars (ode to your beautiful blog).🌠
Love this post – I also ask my fat loss clients to see the “failed” diets as an opportunity to learn, what doesn’t work…and lets move forward.
Thanks Melanie! I appreciate how you apply this strategy in your work. So essential for changing health habits.
Clients need to feel safe in order to share their failures. Reframing helps tremendously. And your questions move them forward with confidence.
Failure has been really hard for me, but it’s taught me who I am. It’s also brought me closer to friends and loved ones. And without failure, I would not have started my blog! I read somewhere that “failure looks like a barrier but is actually a doorway.” Not my words, but I have remembered them. Thanks for this thought for today. 💪😊
Thank goodness for failure! Because I have learned so much from your blog Jenna. As hard as it is (excruciating at times), failure does teach us so much about ourselves and our destiny (Wishing Well Inc.). Write on Jenna! Write on! 🙂 🙂
One more thing…. thanks for the quote! I added it to this post!
Very often your greatest teachers give you unwanted lessons. Great post.
Thanks Bernadette!
This post was inspired by midterm week at the college where I work.It is a really tough time for my nursing students right now. Accepting lower marks than expected rocks their world.
So every story I can share of my own school failures (including a 28% on my first grad exam!) helps them realize that they too will be ok (in the end).
And that it’s all worth it! 📚
I totally agree, we learn so much from our mistakes, great post, people just need to lose the fear around failure and see it as a very positive part of our life.
Yes, so true! It’s the fear and shame that takes us down. Not the failure per se. One more reason to create a “safe to fail” mentality for ourselves and society.
Support -> Risk -> Failure -> Creativity 🎉
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Love the Zig Ziglar quote! Great post Andrea ❤
Thanks for the feedback on my post Niki. Very motivating!
I love the Zig Ziglar quote too. Reminds us that failure is temporary. And we are forever. (100 years anyway) 😎
It took me a long time to realize that I wasn’t defined by my failures… 😉
Me too! Such a universal experience for us all.🌏💙
Great post! Thank you for the helpful advice on ways to change our perspective on failure. Often failure is a blessing in disguise that helps us learn great life lessons.
Thanks for the encouragement Barbara! Blessings indeed! Revealed with love & time.⏱💖
If it weren’t for failure I wouldn’t have the home I have now!!! I’m so happy and at peace where I now live. Great post! Now that I am older and wiser… ;-)…I embrace failure not as failure but as a learning process which was necessary in order to move me towards something better!! 🙂
I love your enthusiasm Deb! Your home (and the love in it) is such a beautiful daily reminder of how far you’ve come. Something you will never take for granted. 🏡💚
Thank you! You are so right and I sincerely say a thank you prayer everyday and before I leave for work I tell my home how much I love it and how blessed I am to live here. I will never take it for granted as I know where I came from to get here!!! xo Wishing you a day filled with love and blessings! 🙂
You give failure a new definition. Love the positivity and love you spread.
If only you could see my smile! Thank you so much for your kind words. I have a very tender heart & sensitive soul (as I know you do too). Reframing challenges in a positive way & wrapping them with love helps me (and my clients) cope better with life’s struggles. Not everyone gets it. (You do!) But all that matters is the uplifting shift that it creates. Wishing you a day filled with love & good vibes. 💖💫
Hi, thanks a lot for checking out my blog. This is a great post! I am currently writing a book on how to recover from serious mental illness, and one of my chapters is on searching for the positive, or finding the positive in situations, and this post has been very inspiring. Because finding the positive is all about learning from failure, or learning from hard times.. and I think my ability to do this has been so crucial to my recovery. Thanks a lot for the good thoughts 🙂
My pleasure! I look forward to watching your ideas unfold in your book. Finding the positive in the midst of adversity is crucial to recovering from mental illness. Something I know far too well from my being a psychologist & professor. Which is why Positive psychology has been a healing force in my life & the lives of the people I work with. Darkness will always be there. Our job is to bring forth the light. 📝🌠
Yes very much so.. thanks for your comment. I think it’s important to remember that there is also always light- even when it doesn’t feel like it, it is there just waiting for you to reconnect. I hope my book will be helpful for people- lol if I ever get off of wordpress and get back to editing it! Thanks a lot for your comments.
Failures help us have empathy and understanding towards others and often encourage gratitude towards what we do have. Lovely post 🙂
Amen Niki! I agree 100%.
Failure + Adversity = Empathy + Gratitude
Teaching Moment = I often tell my nursing students that adversity creates the much needed empathy for their work in healthcare. And that how their most difficult times are a reference point for how much they have to be thankful for & far they’ve come.
(Life Lessons that I remind myself of daily.)
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This reminds me of a book I just learned about and must read, The Broken Way. The author reminds us that wholeness and brokeness are not opposites, and failure/suffering is “never a meaningless waste of your life but a meaningful way through your life.” ❤
Praise!!!!!!
Very educative post. It is true that failure introduces us to ourselves. Hence giving us a chance to pick up from our state that we find ourself to where we were ment to be. Failure is good as it triggers anxiety that pushes us to surface the better version of us!
Great ideas Naftali! Thanks for adding your insights!
Welcome Dr. Andrea and thank you too for taking the time to share such great insights!
Boy I really needed this today. I’m glad I came across this post just when I needed it. Thank you 🙂
Hoping today is a better day! ☀️💫