Following on last week’s
newsletter on planning for success, this week I want to write a little bit
about the barriers we have to success.
As many of my clients will know
(well, my clients, my contacts, my associates and basically anyone else who has
held even a one minute conversation with me lately), I am a new
grandmother. Our granddaughter is now
nearly 8 months old. Watching her lately
is intriguing and even inspirational.
At the moment, Eleanor is learning
to walk and, boy, is she persistent! At least a hundred times a day, she tries to
get herself from lying, to sitting, to standing, to walking. She falls, she gets frustrated, she gets back
up and tries again. This is how she will
learn to walk.
We all learn to walk by falling
over a lot. We are encouraged by all those around us to get up and give it
another go and another go and another go until we are successful. A massive
amount of praise is bestowed on us as we take those first tentative steps and even
when we fail, we are celebrated for trying.
As babies, there is nothing wrong with trying
and failing; it’s just how we learn to get it right in the end, but as adults,
this all changes and by the time we own and are running our own businesses
failure is not just seen as a negative thing, but it seems to have connotations
of weakness, inferiority, even incompetence.
So how does failure go from a necessary and positive practice required
in order to learn and progress when we are children to professional suicide as
an adult?
For more on this and other ideas
on how you can turn even the greatest ‘failures’ into successes, read the next instalment
of this week’s blog on Sunday.
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