Prepare The Mind To Fail
In the world of personal development, there is an emphasis on positivity towards visualisation of your future and a focus on everything positive. The problem with this mindset is that it sounds amazing in the preparation stage, but when real life happens, failure is inevitable.
What kills peoples confidence and dreams is a lack of preparation for failure. I have too been focused on all the positives that will happen and ending up a week later confidence shot and wanting to quit. Your expectation vs reality is crucial for your success and expecting failure and planning for all possible problems is of importance.
Training the mind to prepare for failure is actually a positive mindset. It’s very different to expecting yourself to lose because one is your attitude you can control and the other is your environment and being a flawed human which you have little control over.
So when you are sitting down to plan your world domination. Prepare the mind to fail at some stage. This will mentally prepare you to overcome this challenge and not set you back by giving up at the first hurdle.
Prepare For The Plan To Go Wrong
Once you have prepared the mind of all the potential failures that might arise. You also have to prepare the mind that your plan and the strategy that you have created will fail at some point.
I have personally spent hours detailing plans for myself and my team’s success. Always when I set them I expect them to go to plan even though I know that something out of the blue will happen that I didn’t plan for.
That’s why with every plan you should do all the best practices to planning but always have space and flexibility for it to change. When planning now I have a part that says.
“What will I do when it all goes wrong.”
Then I write.
“I will remain calm and be excited to find new solutions to solve my problems.”
This very sentence allows me to be ok with failure and not let it trap me. Instead, it allows me to move forward and re-enter back on the correct path.
The best analogy I can think of is the yellow brick road. The plan is the route and the goal is the wizard at the end of the path. The deviations of the lion, tinman and scarecrow are the parts that are failure and problems that have occurred and when you solve these problems only then can you get back on your path to your goal.
Make Failure Your Friend
Failure for many of us is painful. It’s that painful you can even train the brain to be so comfortable it does anything it can to avoid failure. Failure is seen too much within society as a bad thing but this is not true in reality.
How many famous inventors failed before they invented something everyone needed. You must know artists paintings that have failed to then years later to be loved. How many actors failed audition after audition to become movie stars and how many business owners failed to then to become the richest men and women alive. You can probably think of one for each category.
Failure is important as it allows you to understand where you went wrong.
Train your mind to make failure your friend will be the most important decision you could ever make. When you don’t train your mind for failure, it will destroy you mentally, but it will guide you to success when you do train your mind for failure.
Failure was once my enemy and now it’s my friend.
Best Practices To Train The Mind For Failure
- Expect it will happen
- Treat it as a challnege
- Plan for it to happen
- Take time to understand your failure
- When you fail understand your headed to the right destination just on the wrong path
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