Finding it difficult to handle failure in life? Here’s how you can do it the right way

It’s essential to take failure with a pinch of salt but don’t let it guide your life; Read on

By Janvi Manchanda

Updated on Jul 24, 2019 | 07:07 PM IST | 1.8M

Finding it difficult to handle failure in life? Here’s how you can do it the right way

Failure is a part and parcel of our lives. We all have failed at least once in our lifetime. Failure helps us grow and learn. It helps us understand our mistakes and learn from them. It helps us find the right path and it is the best way to get to success. But this doesn’t mean that we are okay with failure. We love gloating after a win but we hate learning after we lose. We let our failure guide our emotions and that never really ends well. We let our failure lead the way and we fail or rather refuse to learn from it because it hurt our pride too much. We beat ourselves up over our failure and refuse to move forward. It’s important to not let that happen. It’s important that we handle failure gracefully and not let it lead us to a sad unsuccessful life. This is how we can handle our failure with our heads held high and take a lesson from it.

1. Accept failure with grace. Don’t deny it or run away from it. You failed and it hurts but it’s alright. Allow yourself to feel the pain and emotions.

2. Don’t beat yourself up over it. It’s okay to fail. There’s nothing wrong with it. Don’t overthink it and don’t engage in negative self-talk. Don’t be unrealistic and irrational. It’s not possible for a person to never fail in life.

3. Don’t be angry. Angry will never take you the right way. Don’t let your anger guide you.

4. Failure doesn’t define you. Just because you failed once it doesn’t mean that you are a loser or a failure in life. It’s just a phase, a down and this too shall pass.

5. Take a lesson or two from your failure and move on. Don’t hold onto that failure. Let it go and aim for success.

6. Don’t try to be a one-man army. Get some help and support. Everyone needs someone to be their anchor when they are having a bad time in life. You don’t have to do everything alone. Get support.