How To Deal With Failure

Written By Tan Hai Liang

We all have plans to get rich. If you don’t have a plan, you can be sure that you won’t get rich. A plan is like a road map. How can you reach your destination without a map?

More often than not, we fail in what we do while trying to achieve success. How do you deal with your failure? Do you see it as a sign for you to stop your plan of getting rich? Resign yourself that it is impossible to be successful?

NO!

Failure is just a way of telling you that you are not doing it right. It is proof that there is something wrong with your plan. Your methodology need to be changed. So change the way you are doing things and continue with your aim to success. There are many ways to get rich, however, each route need to be discovered. It is like treasure in the middle of a jungle, and you are clearing the path to it. There are many others who had found treasure and had given you the treasure map. But why can’t you reach the destination the same way as your forefathers?

There are a lot of reasons why you cannot use the same road even though you got the same treasure map. You may be reading the map incorrectly. The path is slightly obscure by undergrowth or some trees may have felled and blocking your path. Do you use the compass and carve your own path to make a detour over the small obstacles? Or give up the rich treasure?

Thomas Edison had failed 10,000 times before he successfully develop the light bulb that we all use now. Had he given up on this 9000th bulb, we’ll still be in dark ages. He went ahead and keep trying until he succeed at it. When he was interviewed, he said that he didn’t fail 10,000 times but he found out 10,000 ways of not making the bulb.

Your defeat is not permanent. Your defeat is only temporary. It is just feedback that something is wrong with your plan. So just change your plans and persevere with it. Make a detour and move on with your treasure map.