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| The eagle is focused on the goal of getting food of crossing over storms. Let perseverance be your personal growth value! |
Personal growth is a
process of transformation from the negative lane in which negative energy
motivates your thoughts and actions to consistently function as a positive
being. The action of crossing into the personal growth is generated by
conscious tapping into the positive socialization experiences and learned
behavior acquired though other social institutions.
Failure defined!
Failure is a description
of unsuccessful strategies towards planned actions. It is missing how to
achieve goals in the most effective and efficient way.
Contributing factors to failure!
Whenever failure occurs,
it is important to observe that there are two types of common contributors –
external and internal factors:
1. External factors to
failure.
External factors
are those obstacles caused by the environment and other sources which happen
without your control. For an example, your business could fail due to fuel
price increase which required you to increase the prices of goods you are
selling to cover your cost. If the sales decrease continued and ultimately
forced you to close your business, then your action to close was beyond your
control.
2. Internal factors to
failure.
Internal factors to
failures pertain to you; the totality of all components of who you are such as mental,
emotional and spiritual faculties. Often you may not be aware that your worst
enemy is you; your thoughts and feelings because they have a direct bearing and
influence on your decision and how you react to the environment. These habits and flaws are manifestation of childhood
experiences that occurred during your first eight years and form your values
and beliefs systems; they are central to how you manage your life –
relationships, finances, career and your health.
How to use failure as stepping stones to personal
growth!
The first step is
recognizing failure as the effect of something you did that simply provide a
feedback, otherwise known as the law of cause and effect. The law of cause and
effect denotes that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Applying this principle means that:
a)
You have a
responsibility to determine what you want by identifying specific things and actions
you have to do. For an example you could redefine your objective to include the
learning phase so that you can allow errors while executing planned actions;
thus giving yourself an opportunity to regard mistakes as an arena to refine
strategies.
b)
You make choices
and then take actions. It is important to believe in your ability to generate
positive energy that will cause desired results. There is power in deliberate
and focused attention to the quality of your thoughts, feelings and actions.
c)
Success takes time
– persevere in seeing your mistakes as learning curves that enhances your
experience on that particular plan.
Your efforts to reposition
your refined strategy should include self-assessment of who you are. What is
the quality of your thoughts and feeling from which your actions come from?
Remember that most of who you are may not be fully be at your conscious
level. Your subconscious mind houses
your archived systems and includes a blue print of your beliefs and values regarding
relationships, finance and health. Often this archived information is not
accurate; nonetheless it influences all your decisions. In order to learn from
daily experiences, the following three questions will help you to regard the
failures as your stepping stones to life experiences:
a)
What did I learn
from this incident? Calm yourself and
answer this question as objectively as you can.
b)
How can I benefit
from this experience? Remember, you have
no power over anybody except yourself! This means you can only change you by
being aware of the contributing factors to your failure.
c)
What are three
positive things about this situation? Do your best to identify your learning
curve. Note that your mind, which houses your ego, will resist finding positive
lessons in your failure. Allow yourself to feel the hurt of failure without
labeling yourself; that which you feel now will build you if you do not
associate it with negative emotions you experienced from those who socialized
you.
Personal growth occurs
when you are aware of the need to change your perception about unsuccessful
experiences. It denotes taking decisive action to move from the comfort zone of
undesirable habit or and fear of failure to experience the transition of actual
action of running in a new lane of reform towards success.
