I know it’s New Years Eve and chances are that the great readers of this blog are preparing for a big night out. Whatever you do tonight make sure you make it count because you work so hard all year in in school and at work that you deserve a stress free night of drinking with friends and family! As for today’s post, I am going to talk about the inevitable when it comes to goal setting- failure.
There’s a 100% chance you will fail at least once. There you go I said it, everyone fails. I wish I could some how count the amount of times I have failed when it comes to attaining certain goals. Why do I admit to this? The reason is that I want to show all of that I am not some know-it-all sitting behind a computer preaching about setting goals and always attaining them. The fact of the matter is that we will all fail at something at one point or another. Now that we have established the fact that all of us will fail at one point or another, let me stay positive by showing you effective ways of reacting to failure:
Aim a bit lower. Maybe sometimes we are just too optimistic and have set our goals a bit too high. There is nothing wrong with being a dreamer, but dreams end and you realize that certain goals may be out of reach. I am not saying that you should set your standards low, just that you shouldn’t always stress about aiming really high.
Evaluate your goals. The reason you’re failing could be attributed to the fact that you have set the wrong goals for yourself. Maybe you are not meant for that new promotion at work or maybe you are not meant to go to the University you have in mind. Try sitting down for a few moments to decide whether you can set different goals.
Set smaller goals. As I have mentioned before I prefer to set smaller daily or weekly goals because they are easier to attain. Setting a large goal like planning on getting into Graduate School is a lot more difficult as opposed to focusing on each individual course on the road there.
Don’t let it bring you down. We will all fail at one point or another, so why let it bring you down? By slumping over every time things don’t go right as planned you will never overcome major obstacles in life.
That is all for today, hopefully your goal for tonight is to have an amazing time and that you don’t fail to meet that goal.
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I believe in aiming high so if I miss, I will atleast some of it. If I aim too low and I don’t achieve that goal, that does not do me any good.
The way I see it is that failure is part of the process, you have to fail in order to succeed. One of the things that my mentors taught me is to not be afraid to fail because the greatest people in life failed on their way to greatness.
That is very true that some of the most successful people were able to turn adversity into opportunity. I think there is nothing wrong with failure as long as you learn from it. If you don’t learn from it and choose to sulk then you will never grow.
I must say, that I could not agree with you in 100%, but that’s just my IMHO, which indeed could be wrong.
p.s. You have an awesome template for your blog. Where have you got it from?
I totally agree with the points given out here. Goals should be set in such a way that they are achievable and lead us to our desired target. But at the same time we should have the passion inside us so that we are not easily bound by failures.