So what is the root of failure; in the podcast we started with the question; is it lack of information or is it training? The answer was both, but the main issue that came out of this discussion was the word RESPONSIBILITY!! If you are going to fail you need to OWN IT! The reason we need to own failure is because once we own it we can sit with it and be honest with ourselves as to why we failed. Was it a lack of action? Was it over planning? Was it simply that the execution was wrong? The amazing thing about failure is that it makes us better, it makes us STRONGER if we are prepared to sit with it and take the lessons of that failure with us.
We talked about this before in a previous episode of the podcast, but in this episode we went right to the core of the problem, where people just don’t want to take responsibility. I want to challenge you; the next time you go out into the world listen for the BLAME GAME! Listen to how many people blame other things for the things that go wrong. Of course no one likes to fail, but if we can look at it from a stand point of training or experience, and that it’s normal to fail because we need to learn, then we can start to really embrace it. In turn we can start to really stretch and reach for the life that we want to create. Life is full of failure, but people don’t really talk about it. Even the other day my daughter was talking about quite a famous YouTuber who released a book and it did not go down well at all. This is okay though because that’s learning we learn from that. So questions to address it would be, okay, so what was the main cause? Was it the book launch? Was it the type of content? What was the feedback from the customers or fan base? There are so many ways we can address it. If we look at our own failures we can do the same we need to get REAL honest with ourselves as to why things aren’t working and what we need to improve on. Only with honesty and then pivoting and taking new action will we start to see the growth! So make a new plan and take action straight away to get some new results to look at! The example that Lee used in the podcast was the use of our mobile phones!! We never ever get a handbook with them these days, we just use them and put up with failing bit by bit until we master the phone. If you can just take that and look at those micro failures, when we try and do something then you will learn great lessons. So what this is teaching us is, is that we are learning every day. Someone might find a new way to use the phone, then they pass this to you, this is because they were trying to do something with the phone then failed and so they used it a different way, and now they found a way to use the phone even more efficiently than before! So failure can really accelerate our GROWTH if we are truly willing to accept that we will fail, no matter how good we think we are, FAILURE is a humbling companion and keeps our EGO in check. This is a really good thing because otherwise we wouldn’t recognise where we are going wrong and won’t get better and what we do. Of course, there are people who will continue to blame, but in realty it was their failure they are just not willing to accept it. In that case their growth will be more limited, because they are not learning from the experience, they are not self aware of what’s going on. Self awareness is a common theme throughout our podcast, and if you can become more self-aware around failure you will find that your GROWTH will accelerate. Try and look at failure as a positive, I know this is hard, because I am still working on this and it’s not always easy to do. But if we can, and if we can accept that failure is how we learn we shall get better at the thing we love. We will become more intentional about where we want to go and end up, and in that way you will be living your best life!! Wow another week and another set of lessons to learn, I learn just as much as you when doing these podcasts, it’s a journey into who you are and I hope you are getting just as much value because I want you to win. So don’t forget to share the episode with others. Take a screen shot share it on all your social media and let’s get the word out there. I am also so excited that we have launched the Inspiration Nation shop, so if you want to support the podcast, just buy some merchandise and if you post of picture of you wearing it we will re-post it on our social medial. Click here to go straight there This will continue to help us to provide free content for you to live your best life! So keep INSPIRED every day and take action and live life on your terms. Thank you for being an amazing community we appreciate you!! Until next time #InspirationNation
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