Moving on After Failure.

Failure can take a hefty emotional toll, and that’s okay. To make failure your friend and not your enemy, you must overcome it. Failure is the first step to success, but it can be very difficult to get over failure in your dream project and move on. It feels like it’s crushing your soul.

Here are some strategies for moving on after a tough break.

• Don’t keep how you feel trapped within.
• Feel sad if you must.
• What’s important is getting the negative feelings you have out of your system so you can regroup and tackle what’s next.
• Bottling your emotions can lead to negativity and emotional outburst.
• In a moment of weakness, everything you’ve kept inside could explode and set you back even further.
• Eventually the pressure will build and it will be too much for you to contain.

• This not only affects your mental state, but it can affect your relationships too. When you have an outburst, the people you care about often end up in the crossfire.
• Constant anxiety is incredibly unhealthy and can lead to even more problems.
• You need to openly confront the mistakes you made and give yourself the chance to feel it all.
• If you only loosen up a little, the negativity will slowly and persistently enter your mind.
• Otherwise, anxiety will start to linger in the back of your mind and the soft hiss of failure will continue.

There are a few ways to get over the loss and move on to achieving success.

• It’s well known that just talking about something can make you feel better.
• Chances are whoever you talk to will try to make you feel better, but even if they don’t, saying how you feel out loud puts that information out somewhere besides your brain.
• Talk to somebody you know about how you’re feeling.
• Take a load off and express yourself.

• Completely ignoring what happened isn’t helpful, so, set aside a specific amount of time to wallow as much as you want.
• It’s okay to feel like you’ve hit rock bottom.
• For something larger, give yourself a full 24 hours to let it all out and wake up the next day with a clean slate.
• Take some time to be angry, upset, and frustrated so you can get it all out. If it’s something small, all you may need is an hour to pace around or cry in a pillow.
• If you need more than a day, that’s okay, but make sure it’s an amount of time set by you and that you stick to it.
• You get that time to be as mopey as you want, but when it’s over, move on.
• Be careful not to blur the lines between making mistakes and being someone who only makes mistakes.
• Failure is something that happens, not something you are.
• Don’t let it become a part of your identity.
• Just because you haven’t found a successful way to do something doesn’t mean you are a failure. Our actions may define us, but our failures do not. The actions you take to move past failure and reach success will define you in the end.
• Failure can leave an open wound and it’s unwise to ignore it.

• Without acknowledging it, your wound will continue to hurt, take longer to heal, and possibly get infected.
• Failure is a learning and growing opportunity that is necessary for growth. Have we mentioned that failure is good? It can be hard to think that way, but changing your definition of failure can help you cope.

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