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cused on how I was a failure and how people should have bought my course. Then, I stepped out of that mindset and asked a simple question, “What feedback can I take from this situation?”.</p><p id="f3cd">Through this experience, I quickly found things that I had done wrong. I launched my course too early. I didn’t have a large enough audience. I had priced it too high.</p><p id="d575">I then moved from angry to motivated. I wanted to focus on the things I needed to change. I wanted to grow my business and learn from my mistakes.</p><h1 id="ffa8">Failure is a Perception</h1><p id="2c9f">The biggest lesson I learned from this experience is that failure is a perception, not a fact. When we think of something as a failure or think we are failing, we talk about it as an undeniable fact. However, failure is our perception of an event. One person's failure is another’s success.</p><p id="76b3">Therefore, you truly can never fail again. You just have to change your mindset.</p><blockquote id="9551"><p>“But how? How do you just change your mindset?”</p></blockquote><p id="d80e">This is always my question when I see people talk about mindset. Therefore, I want to share how I changed my mindset to help others.</p><h1 id="7236">Changing Your Mindset</h1><p id="7813">When thinking about failure, it becomes easy to blow your setback out of proportion.</p><h2 id="8d38">Language</h2><p id="cd2f">Therefore, the first thing that is important in changing your mindset is to change your language. Instead of using failure, I now use setback. Setbacks can be frustrating and demeaning, but the word setback has a different tone than a failure.</p><p id="f017">A failure means your progress is over. A setback just means you took a step back on the way to your goal.</p><p id="96dc">Failure is final.</p><h2 id="7266">Analysis</h2><p id="65ad">The second step to changing your mindset is to analyze your failure. This is the second part of the quote. Instead of focusing on negative statements, ask quest

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ions.</p><p id="a694">Analyze your setback for feedback.</p><p id="8d5e">When you fall while walking, most of us will get back up. Some of us may feel like a failure. However, those that fall less often analyze why they fell.</p><p id="48fe"><i>I should watch where I am walking and not be on my phone. I need to pick my feet up higher. I need to walk slower. I need to avoid cracks in the sidewalk.</i></p><p id="1bf6">These are all reasons that you can fall. If you analyze your fall, you will see these things as feedback. If you actually put these things into practice, you will not make the same mistakes again. As a result, you will fall less often in the future.</p><p id="7a55">Switching from passive thoughts of being a failure to the active thoughts of analyzing your setback will greatly alter your mindset.</p><h1 id="ac42">Never Fail Again</h1><p id="ee79">If you want to never fail again, it is really simple. Remove failure from your vocabulary. Change your mindset by analyzing feedback and exponentially increasing your progress toward your goal.</p><p id="11f3">This is not simply calling failure something different, but it is changing your mindset where any setback propels you into your next success. Two months after my failed course launched, I had grown my email list by five times, from 100 to over 500 email subscribers.</p><p id="ad6a">Never failing again not only increases your success, but also increases your happiness. Since I have challenged myself to put this quote into practice, I have become overall happier. I no longer go through downward spirals questioning if I will be homeless because I am such a failure. This was a regular occurrence before changing my mindset.</p><p id="94e3">I still deal with the negative moods that come with setbacks, but the results are not as severe.</p><p id="164b">Changing your mindset to stop focusing on failure and, instead, analyzing situations for feedback will launch you to success and increased happiness.</p></article></body>

Failure Is a Matter of Perspective.

How I changed my mindset and found happiness.

Photo by Doran Erickson on Unsplash; Edited by author

“There is no failure, only feedback” — Robert Allen

When I was first attempting to build my business, I came across this quote by Robert Allen. There are so many quotes out there that are meant to help you deal with failure. Many of us read them. Think they are inspiring, but then continue on with our lives.

I did the same thing with this quote. I thought that it was an interesting quote, but I didn’t think about it outside of that. That was until I hit a low point in my business and my first course launch failed.

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Changing my Mindset

I was devastated. I debated closing my business and simply counting it as a failure. Then, this quote came back into my head.

I had been focused on how I was a failure and how people should have bought my course. Then, I stepped out of that mindset and asked a simple question, “What feedback can I take from this situation?”.

Through this experience, I quickly found things that I had done wrong. I launched my course too early. I didn’t have a large enough audience. I had priced it too high.

I then moved from angry to motivated. I wanted to focus on the things I needed to change. I wanted to grow my business and learn from my mistakes.

Failure is a Perception

The biggest lesson I learned from this experience is that failure is a perception, not a fact. When we think of something as a failure or think we are failing, we talk about it as an undeniable fact. However, failure is our perception of an event. One person's failure is another’s success.

Therefore, you truly can never fail again. You just have to change your mindset.

“But how? How do you just change your mindset?”

This is always my question when I see people talk about mindset. Therefore, I want to share how I changed my mindset to help others.

Changing Your Mindset

When thinking about failure, it becomes easy to blow your setback out of proportion.

Language

Therefore, the first thing that is important in changing your mindset is to change your language. Instead of using failure, I now use setback. Setbacks can be frustrating and demeaning, but the word setback has a different tone than a failure.

A failure means your progress is over. A setback just means you took a step back on the way to your goal.

Failure is final.

Analysis

The second step to changing your mindset is to analyze your failure. This is the second part of the quote. Instead of focusing on negative statements, ask questions.

Analyze your setback for feedback.

When you fall while walking, most of us will get back up. Some of us may feel like a failure. However, those that fall less often analyze why they fell.

I should watch where I am walking and not be on my phone. I need to pick my feet up higher. I need to walk slower. I need to avoid cracks in the sidewalk.

These are all reasons that you can fall. If you analyze your fall, you will see these things as feedback. If you actually put these things into practice, you will not make the same mistakes again. As a result, you will fall less often in the future.

Switching from passive thoughts of being a failure to the active thoughts of analyzing your setback will greatly alter your mindset.

Never Fail Again

If you want to never fail again, it is really simple. Remove failure from your vocabulary. Change your mindset by analyzing feedback and exponentially increasing your progress toward your goal.

This is not simply calling failure something different, but it is changing your mindset where any setback propels you into your next success. Two months after my failed course launched, I had grown my email list by five times, from 100 to over 500 email subscribers.

Never failing again not only increases your success, but also increases your happiness. Since I have challenged myself to put this quote into practice, I have become overall happier. I no longer go through downward spirals questioning if I will be homeless because I am such a failure. This was a regular occurrence before changing my mindset.

I still deal with the negative moods that come with setbacks, but the results are not as severe.

Changing your mindset to stop focusing on failure and, instead, analyzing situations for feedback will launch you to success and increased happiness.