Reframing Failure: 4 Lessons to Bring on Success | Video

Did you know that one key to success is the ability to reframe failure?

In the video below, I talk about four lessons you can gain by reframing failure.

You might be surprised to hear that the best thing you can do about failure is to embrace it. If your presentation bombed, or you didn’t get that promotion, or your big sale fell through, embracing your failure is probably the last thing you want to do.

But take it from experts, the key to success is learning to reframe failure. Consider these four lessons.

1. Reframing failure as an opportunity to learn

You cannot learn without making mistakes. No one learns a new skill right off the bat. It just doesn’t happen.

Remember when you learned to ride a bicycle? You had to fall off a certain number of times before you got your balance and learned how the whole thing worked. Then one day you just got it. So many skills and accomplishments are like that.

That’s how science works. You have an idea and test it, experiment, it doesn’t work, you try another way. No scientist expects to get it right the first time.

Reframing Failure Lesson: You didn’t fail, you learned one way not to reach your goal.

2. Failure builds resilience

If you persist in the face of failure you are much more likely to succeed. It took Sir Edmund Hillary three attempts before he reached the top of Mt Everest. He had to find the routes that didn’t work before he could finally succeed.

Successful people are not crushed or paralyzed by failure. They see mistakes as clues, what not to do on the way to reach their goal. Most of the time failure is not a moral issue, so don’t take it personally. Reframe mistakes and view them as important information.

Reframing Failure Lesson: When you learn to take failure in stride and not let it hold you back, you build resilience to face future missteps.

3. Failure takes you closer to success.

Once you reframe failure as data, you can see that even if you make a mistake or a misstep, you are still moving forward. Failure is only a disaster if it makes you give up. Often a failure ends up being a blip on the way to success, and that’s all. Try to take the long view. With hindsight, chances are no one will remember today’s flop.

Reframing Failure Lesson: If you didn’t take the risk of failing, you wouldn’t have moved closer to success. You would have been stuck where you are.

4. Failure can make you a better person

Regardless of the size of your failure, whether you bombed the interview or went bankrupt, people will remember the way you behaved in response to failure. If you pick yourself up, recalibrate, behave graciously and keep going, your failure is likely to end up winning you friends and allies.

Reframing Failure Lesson: Learning to reframe failure makes you a more likable person.

Embrace and Learn from failure

Embracing and learning from failure and acknowledging your imperfection can make you a more empathic person, a better team player, a better speaker, a better business owner, and a better boss.

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About the author

Carma Spence, is author of Public Speaking Super Powers. She is fiercely committed to guiding women to Owning their Superpowers and turning their knowledge and interests into a profitable business. She is masterful at helping her clients see what is possible for them and supporting them on the journey from where they are to where they want to be, releasing the Mind Goblins of self-doubt, self-sabotage and second-guessing that keep them stuck.

With 20+ years experience in marketing communications and public relations, natural intuitive skills and certification in using some of the most effective transformational coaching tools available, Carma’s mission and commitment is to unleash the inner power every woman entrepreneur possesses so they can boldly go out into the world, transforming the fabric of people’s lives in meaningful and positive ways.

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