Moving Toward Your Goals Despite "Failures"

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

~Winston Churchill

Face it.  When you try to accomplish things, there will inevitably be "failures."  Accomplishing goals takes effort and enthusiasm to keep going when things are not going well.  That enthusiasm serves as motivation.  It allows you to take the so-called "failure" and utilize it as feedback.  When you are pursuing your goals, there may be obstacles and set-backs.  But you can count yourself successful when you keep moving forward--finding ways around those obstacles, and keeping your enthusiasm despite those set-backs. 

This week:  Think about a goal you have achieved in your life--despite the set-backs and obstacles.  Think back on the obstacles you overcame and how you did it.  What resources did you use?  What support did you need to keep going?  How can you use this information the next time you face obstacles in pursuing your goal? 

Linda Pucci, Ph.D. is a psychologist, life coach and expert in helping people overcome the obstacles to their goals.  She uses her 30 plus years of experience and knowledge of solution focused techniques to support her clients in creating satisfying, meaningful, magnificent lives.  For more information about her or the services she provides, go to http://www.innerresourcecenter.com/

You Haven't Failed--It Is Just Feedback

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

- Thomas Edison

Imagine where we would be today if Edison had believed he had failed when those 10,000 ways did not work.  We might still be reading by lamp light. The lesson here is profound.  When we think we have failed, we often give up.  But when we think about those failures as feedback about ways that didn't work, we keep on going, integrating that feedback into our next effort.  If you find yourself stopping yourself, believing you have failed, think about that "failure" as feedback.  Keep going.  Use the feedback to guide a new approach.

This week:  For just one week, think of your mistakes or failures as feedback.  When can you learn from the things that did not work?  How can you utilize that feedback to modify your approach?  How can you do it differently?  What do you need to add or subtract from your approach?  What might help you to be more successful next time? 

Linda Pucci, Ph.D. is a psychologist, life coach and expert in helping people overcome the obstacles to their success by getting rid of "mental clutter"--especially those limiting beliefs that block you.  For more information about her services or to get some free resources to help you become more successful, go to http://www.innerresourcecenter.com/

Learn From The Mistakes of Others As Well As Your Own

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

We all make mistakes, and the key is to learn from them. The good news is that you don't have to wait until YOU make the mistake in order to learn. You can learn from the mistakes that others make as well. In NLP, we say, "There is no failure, only feedback." From each mistake or failure, there are lessons to be learned. You don't need to let mistakes devastate you, just learn from them. And let the mistakes of others guide you as well.

This week: Look back on the mistakes you made last week. What did you learn from them? Think about the mistakes that those around you made as well. What can you learn from those experiences? How can you use your mistakes and those of others to help you in the future? Write down your learnings.

Linda Pucci, Ph.D. is a psychologist, life coach and expert at helping people overcome obstacles to their success and happiness. She specializes in helping her clients learn from their mistakes and move on to a more satisfying, magnificent life. Linda is a certified trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programmer (NLP) and teaches her clients easy ways to reach their goals. For more information go to http://www.innerresourcecenter.com/

Understand Your Lessons and Live Fully

"Life is a succession of lessons,

which must be lived to be understood."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each experience we have contains some positive learning for us. When we get the positive learning from our experiences, we are able to let go of any negativity attached to the experience and move on. When you are learning from the experiences you have, you are living life fully, and stand to benefit from it fully. As the saying goes from NLP, "There is no failure; only feedback."

This week: Pay attention to the lessons that may be present in your experiences. Even the most difficult, the most negative contains some learning for you. Embrace what life has to teach you this week. Live your lessons fully!

Linda Pucci, Ph.D. is a psychologist, life coach and trainer. She specializes in helping people get "unstuck" by finding the positive learning in their life experiences, so that they can move on. For more information, go to http://www.innerresourcecenter.com/

Success Often Comes From Failure

Most people achieved their greatest successes

one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.
~Brian Tracy

Many times we think we shouldn't ever fail, but failure may provide us with the very feedback we need in order to refine our ideas and make them work. If you try to avoid failure, you often may not do the things necessary to succeed.

When you do fail (and all of us fail at some time or another), use that experience to guide you about what to do NEXT. How can you fix what failed? What is the next step? Focus on using the failure as feedback, and keep going!

Sometimes the success is even sweeter because of those failures along the way. Remember how many times Edison failed with the light bulb?

This week: Notice the things that didn't go according to your plan this week. Notice what didn't work. Use that as information to help you modify your plan, so that you keep moving forward. What will your success look like when you achieve it?

Linda Pucci, Ph.D. is a psychologist, life coach and trainer at Inner Resource Center, LLC in Maryville, TN. She helps people overcome the obstacles to their success by connecting to their resources.