When you are denied things in life and it makes you feel that you are a failure, you don’t have to feel emotions that are painful. You have to learn to cope with your emotions and take out the fear that you feel when failure is at hand.
Here are some ways that you can learn to cope when you fail:
Emotions
When you fail, you have different emotions such as anger, sadness or frustration. These feelings are hard to deal with sometimes and people try as they can to escape these feelings.
You should never try to mask the feelings you have after a failure. Research shows that your emotions can help you to heal after you fail.
When you allow yourself to feel bad after things don’t work out, you will learn to figure out a solution when problems happen. Embrace the emotions that you have and allow yourself time to heal and get over the experience.
Ways to Reduce Pain
When you try to reduce the pain that you are feeling by distracting yourself or filling the pain with other things like alcohol or drugs, it doesn’t make things go away. Doing these things will only give you relief for a little bit of time.
You have to recognize that your ways to get rid of the pain are unhealthy and that they are only making your situation worse.
Coping Skills
You must figure out how to cope and how to handle the stress that you are experiencing. Try to call a friend, relax in the bath, go for a walk or go out to eat. Learn to figure out things that help you to cope.
If you have a bad habit that you do when you are stressed, try to stop doing it. Figure out a way to be healthy and to cope in a way that makes you feel better instead of hurting you more.
Future
Just because something happens does not mean the future is over. When we fail, we have to learn to get up and then we will succeed. Giving up will only make you fail more.
You must have a good belief about your future and know that in the future things will change and get better. One failure does not equal the end of your future.
Real Thoughts
You need to make sure that you have realistic thoughts about what is happening in your life. You cannot lose weight if you don’t stop eating high calorie foods and you cannot succeed in a job if you choose not to apply for one.
People that think that things are hopeless will have a hard time getting over failure. Here are some thoughts that you need to begin to think:
- I have failed but I can handle it.
- I learn from my failures.
- Failure shows me that I need to try harder.
Repeat these things to yourself until you are able to get back on your feet.
Responsibility
Make sure that you give yourself responsibility for when you failed but not too much. Never pass the blame to someone else but also be responsible and stop blaming yourself for everything that happens that doesn’t work out in your life. Doing this will not help you to learn.
When you think about what caused you to fail, figure it out and don’t make excuses. Know the reasons you failed and figure out how to do better next time.
Everyone Fails
Look online and see all of the important people in life that have failed. Thomas Edison took many tries before he was able to create things and many other famous people have failed along the way. Take time to research famous failures and know that at some point, everyone fails but what is important is how you move on afterward.
Many people that are successful will fail and this means that you either bounce back and end up doing something great, or you give up.
Learning
What has your failure taught you? Failures teach us what to do better next time. Think about what you can do to succeed in the future. Let your failure teach you a life lesson.
Moving On
When you fail, you have to get up and move on. You cannot get stuck in a rut thinking about the failure over and over again. You must learn to move on and to figure out how to do better in the future.
Face Fears
Spending too much time thinking about how you have failed will bring about fear and unhappiness. You have to learn to be brave and to reach out to better yourself.
Learn to do things out of your comfort zone and take time to be rejected. When you are rejected, pick yourself up and try again. Do this over and over again until you get it right.
Conclusion
Failure can make you fearful and angry and if you are struggling to pull yourself out after a failure, take time to consider what is going on in your life. If you feel that you need professional help, someone to talk to, get it.
If you have failed in a career, a marriage or any other things in life, pick up where you left off and move on. There is always tomorrow to succeed.