There is NO Such Thing as Failure - ONLY Feedback

It’s completely normal to find difficulty in doing something you’ve never done before whether that’s trying a new business strategy, attempting to improve your health, learning a new skill or hobby or making new friends. What makes these things hard, however, might not be what you think. Often, the reason we believe new things are hard is because we don’t have the right information. I’m calling bullshit on that because we have the internet at our fingertips, and it’s never been easier to access that much information in all of history. The real reason doing something new is hard is because we are scared. We are afraid of failing, and more so, what others will think of us failing.?

Today I want to challenge that belief by showing you that failure does not exist. I’ll be going over two examples to help you kick this unhelpful belief to the side.?

Consider this scenario - you start a business with the intention of it being profitable but, oh wait, after one month you haven't hit anywhere near your sales target. You realise that clearly, something’s not working and you have two choices. Option one: You throw in the towel and allow failure to exist in your life or option two: you take a step back and adjust your approach. You could tweak the business model, alter the strategy or ask someone else for their insight. All you are doing here is acknowledging that there is an issue and then finding a solution to the problem. This is known as feedback.?

So… what is feedback? The systems theory definition states that feedback is information fed back and implemented into an earlier part of the process as a result of the information.?

By developing this unrelenting habit of forming an intention (creating a profitable business), then performing a behaviour (taking action to get to the desired outcome) and finally using feedback to improve our process we form a loop. This loop ensures that we never fail because whenever mistakes happen (and trust me they will) we can quickly amend them to get closer to that desired outcome. I’ll give you one more example - and for my safety, this is purely hypothetical. I promise.?

My loop starts with my intention - this time being that I want to make my partner happy. So, on the way home I pick up some flowers, (my behaviour) but when I give them to her she’s upset because it reminds her of an ex who used to bring flowers home whenever he had done something wrong (this is our feedback)... So once again we have those two options. We can either throw a strop and never buy her anything again in which we’ve failed to use the feedback or we can take the information on board and adjust. Instead, we could run a warm bath or buy chocolate, or something else you know they’d appreciate. All we are doing is continuously adjusting our behaviour until we reach the optimal outcome.?

Too often, I see people give up prematurely, completely removing any chance of them achieving their dream outcome. I hope today by reading this blog I have fulfilled my intention of helping you implement this mindset trick into your day-to-day life.?

Until next time, live daily