How to Bounce Back From Failure

Let’s face the facts. Let’s face the brutal truth. You are going to fail.  You are going to lose. Or at the very least you are going to experience failing and losing if you are challenging yourself enough. 


The simple truth is that if you have dedicated yourself to achieving exceptional levels of achievement and exceptional levels of performance then you have chosen to expose yourself to far higher possibilities of failure or loss.So the first step in bouncing back from failure is to realise that you have chosen to put yourself into situations where you could lose.  You have chosen to challenge yourself.  You have chosen to test yourself and your abilities in this demanding way.The majority of people do not have the courage to place themselves into such challenging and demanding situations. They prefer to play it safe; they aren’t brave enough to take the risk. Such people are also often characterised by their eagerness to criticise the performance of those that are brave enough to challenge themselves! It is very easy to criticise someone’s performance. It is not so easy to have the bravery and courage to step outside of your comfort zone yourself.


You have chosen to test yourself, to challenge yourself, to seek victory and achievement. In doing so you have the courage to place yourself into situations where you may experience failure.


On the path to achieving mastery in your chosen field it is inevitable that if you are challenging yourself and your abilities sufficiently, that you will face challenges and setbacks.  High achievers know that this is the price you pay for achieving any significant success. 


You have chosen to place yourself into a situation where you may experience failure.  You can also choose how you wish to manage losing or failure - if it occurs.  You could choose to get angry and frustrated with yourself, or to moan and whine.  Or you could choose to view such events as a positive and good thing.  A positive and good thing! How can failure be a positive and good thing?

If you have chosen to achieve exceptional levels of performance and achieve mastery in your chosen field then you have made a long term (perhaps even a lifetime) commitment to improving yourself and your abilities on an on-going basis.  You have chosen to challenge, stretch and develop yourself.  Without this you would not be growing as a human being.

Therefore it does not make sense to get frustrated and angry with the very setbacks that you yourself have invited through your chosen commitment!  You need to learn to welcome and even enjoy the challenges and the setbacks, for in this way you will truly learn.

Simon Hazeldine

Every living thing must continually seek for the enlargement of its life, because life, in the mere act of living, must increase itself.

A seed, dropped into the ground, springs into activity, and in the act of living produces a hundred more seeds; life, by living, multiplies itself. It is forever becoming more. It must do so, if it continues to be at all.

Intelligence is under this same necessity for continuous increase. Every thought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought; consciousness is continually expanding. Every fact we learn leads us to the learning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing. Every talent we cultivate brings to the mind the desire to cultivate another talent; we are subject to the urge of life, seeking expression, which ever drives us on to know more, to do more, and to be more.

In order to know more, do more, and be more we must have more. We must have things to use, for we learn, and do, and become only by using things. We must get rich so that we can live more.

The desire for riches is simply the capacity for larger life seeking fulfillment. Every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility to come into action. It is power seeking to manifest which causes desire. That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.