{"id":177,"date":"2015-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/energysculptor\/failure-and-how-to-use-it\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T01:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:32:07","slug":"failure-and-how-to-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/energysculptor\/failure-and-how-to-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure and how to use it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Failure<\/span> is a word which can hurt and then can bounce around\u00a0our consciousness like some ugly dream that repeats and repeats through the night. <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Nobody wants to fail \u2013 the pressures can be\u00a0too high not to, the embarrassment too painful, the consequences too dangerous. But remember failing<\/em> is NOT\u00a0failure.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

But this is only a\u00a0state of conditioning. Actually unless you fail you can never really know what\u00a0the criterion of success is. I have died so many times on stage ( in my analysis) that I have often considered giving up. In truth no one in the audience noticed that much and performer friends know exactly how it is for them<\/em> so they are also quite sympathetic\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

The key is how you deal with it. Learn to laugh at it. Give it full respect. See it like it\u2019s just\u00a0not the time for you and there will be another possibility later\u00a0. Think of how you will look at it in three weeks time when you tell the story to friends, falling wound laughing. Write a song about it, do a drawing or cartoon of the situation so you can distance yourself from the emotion. Remember the emotion is NOT\u00a0you and neither is the situation or the judgement you might make about yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

A whole series of negatives can follow like a downward spiral\u00a0if you are not careful to be positive about yourself\u2026.it always happens to me, nobody loves me, it\u2019s not the right thing for me \u00a0<\/em>etc. \u00a0Those are the steps to ensure that failure is constant\u00a0unless you keep your perspective in check.<\/span><\/p>\n

So how to avoid\u00a0failure<\/em> ?<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. A\u00a0good plan –<\/strong> give yourself a clear picture of what you want to achieve, including your lifestyle, your family and your mission.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Preparation<\/strong> –<\/strong> you can\u2019t climb Everest until you have the right equipment and some real practical experience with mountain climbing.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0Focus \u2013 <\/strong>stay in alignment with your task and beware the distractions, especially \u2018helpful\u2019 suggestions due to\u00a0jealousies of others.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0Take action\u00a0<\/strong>– beware talking about things and not doing anything about it<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. \u00a0Don\u2019t give up<\/strong>. There will always be resistance of some kind to success \u2013 even from your ego sometimes, but also from the world. Problems don\u2019t have to exist \u2013 call them challenges<\/strong> and\u00a0then it is a lot\u00a0easier to deal with. If you get egg on your face just wash it off\u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Melissa Mayer<\/a>, a\u00a0modern CEO with guts completely\u00a0rebirthed YAHOO in a matter of months. What she said about failure:-<\/span><\/p>\n

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    The first and foremost is: It\u2019s totally okay to fail; you just need to fail fast, right? So the idea is: Go ahead, take a chance, fail. Maybe you succeed, maybe you fail, but if you don\u2019t end up over investing a ton of time in it, you can move on and do the next thing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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    • A call to action<\/span>\u00a0!!<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      \u2026step out and do the thing you want to \u2013 today \u2013 give it all you got but do it\u2026. who knows? it might even succeed ! I sure won\u2019t if you don\u2019t action! <\/span><\/h2>\n

      \u2026.and\u00a0if you get failure\u00a0smile and learn from it \u2013 you can now take the next step which will bring you closer to you ideal and your dream.<\/span><\/h2>\n
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      Share this post and help spread the love! Failure is a word which can hurt and then can bounce around\u00a0our consciousness like some ugly dream that repeats and repeats through the night. Nobody wants to fail \u2013 the pressures can be\u00a0too high not to, the embarrassment too painful, the consequences too dangerous. But remember failing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[688,689,690,691,692,693,64],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-21-day-blogging-challenge","tag-action","tag-dedication","tag-failure","tag-focus","tag-plan","tag-smile","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/energysculptor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/energysculptor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/energysculptor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/energysculptor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/energysculptor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/energysculptor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/energysculptor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/energysculptor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/energysculptor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/energysculptor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}