How Do You Bounce Back From Setbacks

Hi,

I keep a vision of my dream at the forefront of my mind. By doing this, I remain enthused and tend to look at everything as an opportunity instead of a success or failure.

It's vital to have a clear and detailed vision etched on your mind. Keeps you hungry, motivated and helps to foster the belief that your dream is coming more true in each moment.

Thanks for sharing the questions!

RB

In my case, I will evaluate first what went wrong and then plan the next move. I always believe that experiences make us more strong and wise.

Look your loved ones in the eyes... if that doesn't get you back on track you might be in the wrong family

Learning and growing in any industry, job, relationship, business requires failure to make it better.

Failure is a given, and although it's sometimes tough to get back up again when you get slapped by mistakes, there's always something valuable about the experience.

Without getting into deeper philosophy, I believe failure is healthy.
It keeps us humble, keeps us trying, keeps us motivated to improve.

No one likes failing, but it's all in how we deal with it that makes it a positive--eventually.

self care, new strategies, winning, small successes, yummy food, lots of water, lots of sleep and a health amount of exercise...

I will take a tad bit of a break and reevaluate what I am doing. Then i will return with a new mindset.

I think about it long enough to get from the lesson what I needed to get
out of it -- then I move on.

It's very difficult to do this consistently, and it does get easier when you
see how, when you've bounced back, eventually you DO succeed.

...maybe it was from a past project you worked hard on and overcome,
or some big or small business deal that people thought was a failure but
turned out to be one of your biggest success.

It's nice to have a frame of reference of "what it takes to get success in
whatever new endeavor your pursuing", because when you pursue it --
you "get it"...

you get that you probably will fall hard on your face many times before
you get up to ride that train to your destination.

"you KNOW it".

You know success is HIGHLY unlikely to happen with the new endeavor,
and you embrace it. You prepare for it as best you can. And, just like
when you saw what success is like when you ride a bike successfully...

you also remember the days when kids talked about stories where they
fell and scraped a knew, chipped a tooth, or broke a bone.

But did that ever stop YOU from trying it yourself?

No. You did it anyway. Because as children, we aren't yet taught to think
that "messing up" is BAD and unnatural.

The hardest part I think about bouncing back from setbacks, is being a
kid again. Training yourself to go back to the way you learned how to do
EVERYTHING worth having...and not being afraid to learn how to walk, tie
a shoe, or explore.

When you go back to that state of mind, you see set-backs as adventures,
and you look forward to them -- because you know that with out them you
aren't doing "anything" worthwhile.

If we were perfect, we'll have a life with zero failures. Failures comes with the territory. For me, I shrug them off. I'm laser-focused on my goals.

I see the setbacks as stepping stones. I try to learn from them. Focus is key. You know what we concentrate on grows. I choose to direct my energies to what I can control. Not on what is inevitable. Focus on the positive.

Michael Newman