This is Day Eighteen in the 30 Days of Reinvention Video Series [#30DaysReinvention].
Adopt behaviors that make failure a learning exercise.
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Hey it’s Rand,
Don’t let fear prevent you from doing what you need to do to have an impact.
One of our biggest fears is the fear of failure. You need to comfortably face this fear and there are behaviours you should adopt to help you punch through failure.
Firstly, fail fast and succeed slow.
Don’t be afraid to experiment. Most successful leaders failed multiple time before they had a success.
Robert Kiyosaki says, “Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
Secondly, succeed and then fail.
A big success can hold us to a high bar of what success is. This can make us less open to failure. Put your ego aside, lower your benchmarks and be prepared to fail before your next success.
This will relieve the pressure, and allow you to iterate more with more chance of magic happening.
Winston Churchill said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal.”
Thirdly, get into failure flow.
Be mindful of failure, because failing without learning is a wasteful exercise.
Try to be aware of what is happening as a project fails. If you are in failure flow you will see the elements that lead to failure as if in slow motion.
Henry Ford said, “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
Fourthly, only fail when you cannot succeed.
Let’s face it, failure sucks. It sets you back. It impacts the lives of people who believe in you. It impacts the lives of people who rely on you.
Have grit and persistence and don’t choose failure as an easy way out when the going gets tough.
Fifthly, fail resiliently.
Get up, take the hit and move forward.
When you fail and I hope you will, how do you treat it?
Yep, your heard right: I want you to fail; I want you to fail often!
Why?
Because every failure brings you one step closer to success.
How you deal with each failure, big or small, determines whether you will succeed.
CS Lewis said, Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
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