How do we use courage when we fail?
OK, so maybe something didn’t workout the way you thought it would. Maybe it was a relationship, or a plan, or even a new venture, no matter what flopped, you’re already ahead of the game.
At least you used the courage to try in the first place.
We all tend frame our flops as failures initially, the gold is to reframe this tilted perspective. You tried, that took courage. You can accept that you learned what doesn’t work so well with vulnerability, that takes courage. You can bounce back and apply that learning moving forward, now your cultivating courage!
Our flops only become failures when allow the wound to our ego to overpower our courage to learn and move forward.
Each opportunity becomes an educational investment in our life experience, some types of education cost more than others. But they all cost courage!
The only way to never fail is to never try. Wherever we face the risk that it might not work out as we expect, or hope, or plan; courage is required. Here a re a few MINDSET shifts to help us reframe a perceived failure:
If you tried it wasn’t a failure. OWN THAT STATEMENT.
Mine for the lesson(s) that you can learn from the experience. Apply those lessons in the broadest way possible for future attempts.
Create opportunities to tackle experiences where you feel risk aversion holding you back. You can become more resilient for the opportunities that matter most in the future.
We’re all learning and this is our first rodeo. We will fall, flop, and fumble but as long as we get back in the saddle we will never FAIL!
LISTEN TO EPISODE 26: Courage in Failure for more insights on this topic.
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