This is Day Seventeen in the 30 Days of Reinvention Video Series [#30DaysReinvention].
Surround yourself with failure and embrace it.
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Hey it’s Rand,
Success and failure are far from random.
They live within the DNA of our character and personality.
Success and failure are expressed through our thoughts and actions.
Both success and failure are subjective and depend a lot on your mindset, your expectations and whether you react positively or negatively to a situation you are presented with.
How does your society define success?
How does your society define failure?
Does your personal definition of success and failure differ from that of your society?
Do you view disappointment as a natural part of expansion?
When you fall short recognise this not as failure, but as an integral part of the cycle and journey to success.
Disappointment is an inevitability if you are courageous enough to moonshot.
When you do fail, make sure you get back on the horse and keep riding.
Success with failure comes down to how you behave in the face of failure.
Failures are a form of feedback. They are never total failures because they show you what you shouldn’t do and what you should do better.
When you fail the first thing you should do is: Celebrate, because you are one step closer to understanding what works and what doesn’t.
And then the second thing you should do is systematise what you do with failures. Create a way of extracting the key learnings from ongoing failures so that they bring you closer and closer to success.
Failure may not be what you wake up every day hoping for, but successful leaders surround themselves with failure and embrace it.