The Success Habit of Failing Forward - dONNA kUNDE & lONDINA cRUZ

Londina Cruz & Donna Kunde - “Building Success Habits”

PROFIT RADIO..."Grow With Us"

Introduction
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It is a delay, not a defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street”  – William A. Ward

Failure is necessary for all success. The key is to view every failure as a temporary defeat. When we fall down as children, we are taught to brush ourselves off and get right back up. 

John Maxwell shares a different view. John says when we fall down we should stay down long enough to figure out what tripped us up. Only then should we get up and move forward. Without taking time for reflection, we doom ourselves to repeat the failure cycle. 

Failure in itself is not a tragedy. The way to fail forward is to become vulnerable enough to analyze the failure in order to find the pitfall. The time spent in reflection grows both the business and the business owner. 

Without reflection, chances are good that we will live a life of insanity like Einstein defined, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.”

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Objectives - The WHY 
Today we are exploring the value of failure and how to take temporary defeat and turn it into a learning experience in order to fail forward. 

Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

1. Most people think they have a fear of failure
2. In reality, many actually fear success
3. Failure is only permanent when we quit

What You Need to Know - The WHAT

1. Know the difference between failure and temporary defeat. Failure is only permanent when we quit. 
2. You have to take the first step, possibly in fear, in order for the next step to show up.
3. It is better to fail forward than to bounce back. When you fall down, stay down long enough to figure out what tripped you. Learn the lesson. Then get back up and take the next step. 
4. Be teachable. Find a coach or mentor to help guide you.
5. Look for the lessons and the opportunities.
6. YOU are not your results. Failing forward is an inside job.

What You Need to Do​​ - The HOW

1. Spend time in reflection in order to identify and analyze the failure point.
2. Turn every failure into an advantage by looking for new opportunities or benefits in every bad experience.
3. Take action and calculated risks every day. Action reduces fears.
4. If at first you don’t succeed, do something harder. Get out of the safe zone.
5. Continue to grow yourself. Take a look at a recent failure and own anything that you should claim as your responsibility. Once you claim what you are responsible for you will be able to change your way of thinking in the future.
6. Focus on your strengths and create a team to help in areas you are not as strong in.
7. Let go of yesterday, embrace today, and create your tomorrow.
8. Listen to the Building Success Habits Series
9. Download the IBGR Business Growth App
10. Challenge beliefs that no longer serve you. Quote: Eric Hoffer - “No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need other people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps a book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need other people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.”

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