Building resilience: bouncing back from setbacks on the path to success
Resilience is hard to define, setbacks are unavoidable, and success is inevitable. Life is full of surprises, you never know what will happen to you the very next moment. The best way to deal with this is to stay prepared. Stay prepared for whatever has to come in your life, take lessons if it fail you, stay blessed if it help you succeed, and most importantly do not lose hope. You cannot avoid setbacks but surely can take lessons from them.
Don’t be scared of setbacks
Setbacks are a part of life like success. If you want to enjoy success then you need to embrace setbacks first. No man has achieved success without failing. However, the trauma and shock are obvious especially when you are not prepared for a setback. Thus, you need to develop an ability and willingness to determine your own strengths and weaknesses every time fail. Remember, blinding believing that you cannot fail is overconfidence and firmly having a hope that you will be successful is confidence.
Remember “Failure is the pillar of success”
No man has achieved success without failing. Many great personalities and businesses such as Walt Disney’s first animation studio went bankrupt, three-time award-winning director Stephen Spielberg was rejected twice by the University of South California’s School of Cinematic Arts, Anna Wintour before becoming editor of Vogue was fired from Harper’s Bazaar, and many other has such stories of failures turning into success.
Do not blame others
The blame game is a negative entity and is a weapon of cowards. Yes, you can waste your whole life blaming others for your setbacks, which may or may not be true, but the fact is you will never become successful in doing that. Taking responsibility for your mistakes is far better than blaming others. As it boosts your potential and fuels your cravings for success.
Always appreciate criticism and feedback
Criticisms and feedback can be demotivating sometimes but they are the keys for assessing your area of weakness. Feedback helps you know more about your weaknesses and when you accept feedback and address it in your journey towards success, you will be a step closer to becoming successful.
Be open to alternatives
Determination and Aspiration to become successful in particular areas or fields are good and honourable but on a long-term basis, it is quite harmful. Just think, you want to become the world’s best physicist or want to make a ground-breaking discovery in a particular field, or want to become the best player, and you succeeded in achieving it, but then what? What you will do next when you reach your goals? Thus, be open to alternatives, when you will fulfil your one goal and then go for another, do not get obsessed with one particular vision or aim in life.
