This is a Guest Post by Dan Petraglia of Fitness and Weight Loss Central
Failure is something that is simply a part of life. I’ve never met anyone who hasn’t failed at something at least once. Even some of the most successful people that I’ve met, and throughout history that I’ve heard of would say the same thing. Many would say it is because of those failures that they became fabulous. Failure isn’t necessarily something bad. Many learn and grow from failures they experience and flourish from them because of those very experiences.
Someone who is experienced at something is usually very good at it. The reason for such skill and expertise is because along the way, they failed at certain areas of their craft (even the same challenge being failed numerous times over), and learned from those mistakes. Here let’s take a look at some of the most successful and inspiring human beings to ever live.
As you can clearly see, whether it was doubt, no one believing in them, failure at a certain achievement along the way, or any kind of failure, they became who they really were supposed to be in the end. If you feel that you are truly destined to become something, then you should never doubt this feeling for a second.
We all experience obstacles and even road blocks down the road of life. A road that many struggle with and often times quit on is their health. Whether it’s getting fit or losing some weight, you should never look past your health as that is something that will stay with you you’re whole life. Here let’s analyze five concepts within the realm of failure, and how to approach, overcome, and grow as a person because of them. Five concepts to make failures fuel you to become fabulous.
1 – Frustration
Frustration is probably the worst type of feeling that can accompany a failure. Frustration feeds off of more frustration and can have a real snowballing effect. The best way to fight back from frustration is to have acceptance of the issue or failure, and then regrouping yourself at another time or day. Frustration is similar to violence as it can breed more and more of its own essence simply because it exists to begin with. Countering a frustration best is by taking deep breaths, stepping off the issue briefly, and then coming back full force at a later time.
2 – Quitting
Most feel when they’ve failed at something, or even worse failed at it more than once that it’s pointless to continue. After all, that’s the easy way out right? But the truth is you’re only going to regret quitting at something in the end. Also a great deal of grief, guilt, and disappointment is sure to follow. So you didn’t hit your weight loss goal in the allotted time you gave yourself. That’s okay, set a new one and more forward with what you know now, and then use that as ammo to hit the new target.
3 – Worth Fighting For
Something that is similar to the idea of quitting is that when we fail at something we often times adopt a mindset that relays less and less logical reasoning. Similar to how love makes us act with our hearts and not our heads. Failure kind of does the same thing were we sometimes will seriously put into question whatever it is we’re trying to succeed at. We ask ourselves is it even worth fighting for? This is a “quit in progress” attitude sort of speak. And as mentioned before, we all know what that leads too.
4 – Losing Large
Losing big is the worst. Getting blown out or completely failing by a huge margin hurts the ego for sure. But there is an alternative way of thinking about it. You can sulk and pout all you want, or take a step back and revaluate what happened. Maybe you need to reassess what went wrong from the get go because clearly you weren’t prepared. And preparations need to be made in abundance, and intelligently (which is of equal importance).
5 – The Comeback
Some of us out there don’t want to even attempt a comeback just because the idea of it translates to too much work. And that is exactly the kind of attitude that most would frown upon now isn’t it? Actually a comeback at something in life is a good way for people to see what you’re really made of. It’s easier to judge ones character when you can visibly see more drive, determination, and how motivated the individual is versus trying to read someone who is reserved, low energy, and almost emotionless.
All in all, getting motivated means being able to come back from adversity, understanding how you came to a big loss, questioning yourself less, absolutely never quitting, and fending off frustration with adaptation. Remember failure can fuel you to become fabulous.
About the Author – Dan Petraglia runs a weight loss and fitness information blog. Unique exercise, dieting, and nutrition information, products, programs, and services are provided. For more information, please visit http://fitnessandweightlosscentral.com/
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