What failures? You have been doing a great job at finding ways of how not to do things.
This was the first thing I was going to say, but it looks like someone already said it!
I'm going to spin this a bit differently, so hopefully this will make sense.
I think most people think of failure as an absolute, or 100%. By that I mean if something fails, EVERYTHING was wrong.
That is seldom the case, though.
Sure their may have been more than ONE issue, but typically it was a few bad decisions or parts of the equation that made the whole thing fail. You may have a great cake recipe and 99 of the ingredients are correct, but if you forget the yeast, well...
What I'm getting at is this: Take a good look at what specifically caused you to fail. Were you in the wrong industry? Were your prices too high/low? See if you can pick out the biggest part of the problem, and figure out a solution for it, then rebuild.
I remember Tony Robbins talking about failing at golf when he first started out in one of his seminars. It went something like this:
Tony was working with a coach and the first day he did great. Then when he came back the second day, things just weren't working out the same way. He was slicing and shanking the ball, and just getting frustrated. His coach would chime in after some bad shot and say something like, "Ain't that a bitch?" or some other comment, trying to make light of the moment.
Tony had it and snapped at his coach. He said, "Maybe the problems I'm having are because you're not that great of a coach?"
The coach smiled, then said, "I know you're frustrated, but you're actually not that far off of what you're supposed to be doing. I didn't show you this yet, but watch this." The coach then showed Tony that by turning the club head just a millimeter off of where it's supposed to be has a TREMENDOUS affect on the trajectory of the ball, due to the speed and distance involved. One millimeter to the left, and you're off the fairway. One millimeter to the right, and you're in the water.
Tony took that and reframed it (like he always does) into meaning:
When all hell is breaking loose, you may only be ONE MILLIMETER away from achieving your goal.
So like I said, take a serious look at what failed, and when you do, you may find out that your failure isn't that far from the success you seek!
Better luck on the next try my friend!
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