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Jan 07, 2015

Accepting Your Failures


 

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

 

Winston Churchill said both of these things, and it may sound to you as if this gentleman had a lot of experience with failure.  Churchill dealt with a great many problems that were not necessarily entirely within his control, but he is still remembered as one of the greatest leaders of all time.  One of the things that made this man great was his ability to except his failures and to grow and learn from them.  He accepted responsibility for his failures as readily as he did for his successes.   So many of us blame everyone except ourselves for literally everything and this, I believe, is a major contributor to why so many of us find success so elusive.

 

Think about it for a moment, the last time you were late for work what did you tell your boss?  I hit traffic, there was an accident, the baby kept me up all night, I had a family emergency, you certainly did not say I hit the snooze button one too many times or that I sleep unit the last possible minute then rush out the door with exactly enough time to make it here unless there’s a problem.  The lesson here is if our hypothetical employee admitted he had hit the snooze button ten times he would think twice before doing the same thing again the next time he woke up feeling a little tired.  You see if we never admit to our failures and mistakes we will never grow or learn.  When we paint ourselves as the victim we feel absolved of any obligation to change our behavior, and then we wonder why “these things always happen to me” and “Why do I have the worst luck.” No you don’t have bad luck and your not  fates punching bag, you just refuse to accept reality and the responsibility for your own failures.

 

The other major problem with blaming everyone except yourself for your problems is that you create adversity.  You draw a line in the sand and on one side is you and on the other side is them.  Them can be random drivers on the road, the faceless individuals at the post office or the bank, or they can be your friends and family, your co-workers and people that may actually matter throughout the course of your day.  If you are constantly blaming everyone else for your faults and shortcomings in your mind these people become the enemy and if you voice your issues and reasoning’s enough you will become theirs.

 

It could be argued that refusal to accept responsibility for your own failures is one of the biggest roadblocks on the path to success.  So many people that have achieved greatness failed so many times before they succeeded, they not only kept trying but they accepted the reality that there was something wrong with what they were doing, they then worked towards changing their process.  Blaming others for the bad things in your life will only hurt you, it creates adversity and it severely impedes your ability to grow and learn as a person.  Don’t be afraid to take a long hard look at yourself and what you may be doing wrong, admitting that we are doing something wrong is the first step to doing something right.

 

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