How to look at disappointments constructively?
Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.Don't be disappointed by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.You always pass failure on the way to success.A minute's success pays the failure of years.Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.Disappointment When you suffer a disappointment, it hurts. It hurts enough that it can powerfully motivate you to find a better way. Whenever something doesn't live up to your expectations, you can choose to become angry, resentful, frustrated or discouraged.
Or, you can set out to make it better. Disappointment is a thorough, effective and highly personalized teacher. The powerful lessons learned in the midst of disappointment can stay with you always. Once you've experienced a disappointment, you're already past the hard part. And you're in a position to turn that disappointment into something valuable.
You've paid the price. So step forward and reap the reward. In disappointment there are the seeds for real improvement, for real progress. Nurture those seeds with newfound strength, and transform disappointment into resounding success..
Don?t Pull Up The Seeds When You?ve Just Sown Them
Why is it that 95% of people who set themselves goals fail to reach them? In one word: impatience.
The most important and difficult stage of goal-building is the immediate stage after you set your goals. In the first stage, there's a brief blip of euphoria. But this soon passes and then you hit the arid plateau of learning. It's in this phase that most people lose their way and give up.
But this is the phase when you have to hang in there despite appearances. Otherwise, it's like digging up the seeds a week after sowing them.
So, here, for those who need a roadmap through the arid plains of goal-building, is a 6-step guide to managing your impatience and keeping your plans on track.
1. Have Plenty of Motivation Reminders. One of the cruel tricks that life plays on us is to make goal-setting easy and goal-building hard. This is no more true than in the opening phases of working towards a new goal. When we choose a new goal that...
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The Trust We Must Have to Manifest What We Truly Desire
Some of my greatest teachers have taught me that faith and trust are two of our most powerful allies. True belief in your ability to create results in your life is based upon this trust. We know that the first step of manifesting what you desire is to breathe deeply and get centered - therefore quieting the mind. Allowing this calmness to flow through you... As the book Conversations with God (a deeply spiritual, non-religious book) teaches us, Our thoughts are expressions of the Divine - of God - that we are at the same time the Source and the receiver.
Now, this may seem a bit too powerful for some to either understand or admit. But think just for a moment, if we are given the free will as we have been given - would it make any sense that our thoughts (prayers) would be separate from the Creator? How are we any different? We carry the seeds of Creation inside of us - we are Spirit embodied. Breathe deeply and ask yourSelf: "How does this feel when I hear it?" "How can I Create?"...
The Trust We Must Have to Manifest What We Truly Desire
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