This post was guest blogged by Alan Johnson from The Rating Blog, where you can win prizes by helping those in need.
Have you just launched that project of yours which looked great on paper? Were your expectations high, only to suffer a bitter defeat? Well, you’ve just learned something what millions of other online entrepreneurs before you have: failure is always a possibility, no matter how good things look on paper.
Failure Is An Important Part of Success
I’ve referred to the fact that there is nothing wrong with failure and that it shouldn’t be treated as a disappointment in my “Do You Act Like A Winner?†guest post, but let’s see exactly how one should react to it.
First of all, as previously stated, don’t let it get to you. No, you are not the first person to have made a mistake and you will definitely not be the last. There isn’t a single billionaire out there who hasn’t failed, and I’m not referring to minor problems here, I’m referring to huge defeats, which would have made most people in their position give up. But they didn’t, and that’s the main factor behind their success. Never make the mistake of letting failure get the best of you.
Does that mean that you should forget about your experience altogether? Of course not, and, while you should never let yourself get discouraged by failure, you will only end up repeating the same mistakes over and over again if you forget about your experience. Failure is an important part of success because of the lessons it has the habits of teaching you, lessons which will help you become a better entrepreneur.
What did I do wrong? Why did I make such a decision? If I were to be facing the same scenario again, what would I do differently? These are just a few of the questions you should be asking yourself after each failure, and answering them will help you learn valuable lessons and not repeat your mistakes in the future.
Never Repeat The Same Mistake, There Are Plenty of New Ones to Make
There isn’t a person out there who is above failure, there is nothing wrong with it, but repeating the same mistakes over and over again is just plain foolish on your part. What good will a certain experience do if you don’t have anything to learn from it?
Alright then, so you didn’t get discouraged, you’ve asked yourself a few important questions which have helped you learn a thing or two, now what? Now it’s time to get back on the saddle, it’s time to put your experience to good use. Rest assured, the lesson you’ve learned will prove to be of great help down the road.
Will you be facing reality checks in the future? Will you fail miserably at a certain point? Of course since, no matter how knowledgeable you are, failure is always a possibility. You will always make mistakes and that is perfectly fine and understandable. Making the same mistake twice however isn’t.
The way you handle failure is one of the key aspects which will make or break you as an online entrepreneur. Don’t let yourself get discouraged, analyze everything you did wrong, learn from your mistakes, never repeat them and you are on the right track. Handle failure the wrong way and you will become yet another statistic, yet another never-was. Are you about to let something like that happen? I didn’t think so.