#2 Success Tip: Resist Failure

Success and greatness are achievable for everyone, but failure is one thing that keeps people from succeeding and makes them ordinary in life. But when you learn to properly resist failure, you will succeed and enjoy greatness. This article is written to teach you how to resist failure to achieve success and greatness.

Understand failure

Now you need to understand what failure is and what it is not, for you to properly resist it. There are two categories to failure. First, to simply put it; failure is failing to reach your goal. But not reaching your goal itself is not a failure if you do not give up on the goal. This means it does not means you have failed if you have not reached your goal yet, you have only failed when you accept failure. It means you have failed if you have stopped doing what can make you reach your goal.

 

The second category of failure includes anything that can prevent you from reaching your goal. Mostly these are wrong habits that may include laziness, indecision, procrastination, time wastage, wrong associations, running from books, wasteful spending, ignorance, wrong role model, lack of focus, lack of passion or ambition, etc. All of these failure habits are what can prevent people from reaching their goals. They are the real failure you must avoid.

 

Hate failure

To succeed in life and enjoy greatness, you must hate failure. Hatred is powerful, it is as strong as love, and this is the reason you must confront failure with hatred. When you hate a thing, you will avoid the thing by all means. When you hate failure you will use every means to prevent it from taking over you. You will only succeed in life when you don’t allow failure to overwhelm you.

 

Avoid failure

Another way to resist failure and enjoy success is by avoiding failure from robbing you of your success and greatness. To avoid failure, you must decide that nothing will hinder you from achieving success. First, this means you will never give up if you have not yet reached your goal. Second, it also means you will eliminate or avoid every negative or failure habit from your life. You must avoid failure by all means to succeed and enjoy greatness.

 

Learn from failure

Another way to resist failure is to learn from it. Failure can be a blessing when you learn from it. Failure is a signal that something is wrong. When you fail to reach a goal or get an expected result after making an effort, it is a signal that something in your effort was not done right. If you can locate that wrong thing and correct it, you would not fail again, and you will have expected results. Everybody fails, but only people who learn from failure can overcome their failure. To overcome failure, to succeed and be great in life, you must learn from your failure and the failures of other people.

 

Don’t repeat failure

To succeed and become great in life you must not repeat failures. You must discover the reasons why you and people fail and avoid the reasons in your life. You must ask yourself “why did that happen?” whenever you fail, and you must learn from the story of people who have failed or succeed in life and avoid the mistakes.

 

Success and greatness are achievable for you when you learn to resist failure; understand it, hate it, avoid it, learn from it, and never repeat it.

 

Rufus J. Akinrinlola, MSc.

 

Question for Readers: what other ways can you resist failure?