Revel in your failure

A pit in your stomach. A fire in your chest. Tears running down your face.

However you feel failure – it is not pleasant.

The sense of not being good enough. Of being hopeless and helpless.

You try so hard and yet you fail.

We all have those days. When it feels like the whole world is against us.

But it is how you handle those days. How you decide to learn and become better. How you rise up to the challenge. How you keep pushing forward.

We need to cut ourselves some slack once in a while. As entrepreneurs or small business owners there are many responsibilities on our shoulders. But we can’t do it all at once. We can’t single handedly face every challenge with a smile and keep working like everything is fine.

We also need to stop. Recess. Take a break.

Reflect on what we did wrong or what we can change. Learn from the experience and move forward.

The ones that keep going when it gets rough, are the ones that will succeed.

We should praise ourselves for rising after we fall.

Like Winston Churchill said:

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Revel in your failure. Because that means you started something in the first place. And not many people have the courage to do that.

Next time you have that pit in your stomach. Feel that fire in your chest. Or those tears running down your face. Remember to be proud of yourself for failing.

You are on your way to accomplish something others can only dream of. And that is not failure.

That is success.