Failure – an opportunity to re-start afresh : Part 1

Let us understand what it really means to fail. Failure; if we look for its dictionary meaning then it says- failure is lack of success. But do our lives run by just a dictionary word? Definitely not.

When we do some work or take up some task like preparing for some competitive exam or sports competition or set up some business or anything where we compete; compete with ourselves or with our opponents; trying to break all the boundaries and records set by us or others and moving ahead of them.

It happens often, when we get in such situations or better to say such sought of conditions we start creating a lot many dreams and expectations out of them and not surprisingly they all are related to success and accomplishment of those tasks and goals.

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 Sometimes we even make our related dreams and expectations true and get highly elated by success and accomplishments. But, sometimes we even face negative results or face lack of success; that’s what we call as failure. On striking a failure we get sad and sometimes even get depressed. A question arises here; do we actually need to get so? And if yes, then what do we get out of it.

By getting sad or depressed we just make our further actions and moves weak. Despite of getting so we must focus on our next move and try to bring ourselves up. One must keep self-motivated and devoted towards the get goals. It is rightly said that- “if a ship is sunk I can’t bring it up, if it is sinking I can’t stop it, but what I can definitely do is to prepare my next move”.

Negative thoughts, thought of failure, guilt, anxiety they all become a sought of hindrance in our path of success. They don’t let our minds to think in more constructive way and then they just drag us towards destruction and finally we get colossal debacles. If it keeps on happening for a long time, then it can even spoil or just ruin our entire life.

Well, in life we must focus on where we want to go despite of where we presently are. So in order to curb over all such problems first of all we need to shift our mind from past happenings and not only try but also live in present, chasing our dreams and thinking plus wishing of a better tomorrow ahead. We must have an optimistic approach towards everything especially at such moments. We must look at brighter side of things and after all every cloud has a silver lining.

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We must introspect and find out the reasons of failure and with a positive, loyal and devoted approach we must correct our mistakes. There might be certain moments where we may have to face a lot of ignorance, criticism and humiliation over our failures, but it does not mean that we stop or stop even trying. The biggest mistake of life which one can commit is the mistake of never trying. If you fall seven times, then stand up at eighth attempt.

This is just the beginning. Stay tuned for the next part where we will see lot of motivation and how to overcome it.If you like us share with your friends and follow us so that you do not miss on any update.

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About the Author : Shubham Shrivastava was a student at ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL KOTA and has given test of NDA and qualified for UPES, dehradoon for aerospace branch.  Through this article he wants to motivate aspirants , helping them to reach their goal and lever loose hope