{"id":3237,"date":"2013-01-17T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T11:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mindtomind.com\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2016-09-17T04:37:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T09:37:40","slug":"understanding-success-failure-and-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/understanding-success-failure-and-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Success, Failure, and Lessons in Self Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Success, Failure, and Lessons in Self Improvement<\/h1>\n
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“Wherever you are, that is where you are meant to be, experiencing the things you were meant to experience.”<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\nA client recently contacted me asking about test taking. His main concern was that he did not want to fail<\/strong> a certain test. During the conversation, I gave him strategies<\/strong> as to how to go about taking tests without getting stressed out. This would give him the upper hand in taking any tests.<\/p>\n

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Failure and Lessons<\/span><\/h2>\n

We got back to the main issue of not failing<\/strong>. He asked, \u201cBut what if I fail?\u201d I answered him, \u201cYou are likely to learn more out of anything that you fail than learn from passing.\u201d<\/em> It makes sense. You will learn many lessons when you fail at something. But if you pass that event, you have no reason to look for your lessons.<\/p>\n

Everything that happens to us happens for a purpose. And sometimes, one thing leads to another. Instead of locking yourself up in your cage of fears<\/strong> and crying over past heartaches, embarrassment<\/strong> and how failure leads to success<\/strong>, treat them as your teachers and they will become your tools in both self improvement<\/strong> and true meaning of success<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Patch Adams<\/span><\/h2>\n

I remember watching “Patch Adams<\/strong><\/em>” \u2013 a movie. It really shows you something about improving yourself. Hunter \u201cPatch\u201d Adams is a medical student who failed to make it through the board exams. After months of suffering in melancholy<\/strong>, depression<\/strong> and suicidal<\/strong> attempts \u2013 he decided to seek medical attention<\/strong> and voluntarily admitted himself in a psychiatric ward<\/strong>.\u00a0 His months of stay in the hospital led him to meeting different kinds of people. Sick people in that matter.\u00a0 He met a catatonic<\/strong>, a mentally handicapped person, a schizophrenic<\/strong> and so on. Patch found ways of treating his own ailment and finally realized he has to get back on track. He woke up one morning realizing that after all the failure to success and pains he has gone through, he still want to become a doctor. His positive attitude<\/strong> brought him self-improvement and what is success in life. He didn\u2019t only improve himself, but also the life of the people around him and their quality of life. Did he succeed? Needless to say, as the story goes, he became the best doctor America has ever known.<\/p>\n

So, when does self improvement become success synonym? Where do we start? Here are some tips:<\/p>\n

*Stop thinking and feeling as if you\u2019re a failure, because you\u2019re not. How can others accept you if YOU can\u2019t accept YOU?<\/p>\n

*When you see hunks and models on TV, think more on free self improvement tips, not self pitying. Those people were selected to project a certain image. Self acceptance is not just about having nice slender legs, or great abs. Concentrate on inner beauty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

*When people feel so down and low about themselves, help them move up. Don\u2019t go down with them. They\u2019ll pull you down further and both of you will end up feeling inferior.<\/p>\n

*The world is a large room for lessons, not mistakes. Don\u2019t feel stupid and doomed forever just because you failed on a science quiz. There\u2019s always a next time. Make room for self improvement.<\/p>\n

*Take things one at a time. You don\u2019t\u00a0 expect a black sheep to become a goody-two-shoes in just a snap of a finger. Self improvement is a one day at a time process.<\/p>\n

*Self improvement results in inner stability, personality development<\/strong> and keys to SUCCESS at work. It comes from self confidence<\/strong>, self appreciation<\/strong> and self esteem<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

* Set meaningful and achievable goals<\/strong>.<\/span> Self improvement doesn\u2019t turn you to be the exact replica of Cameron Diaz or Ralph Fiennes. It aims at achieving results to an improved and better YOU.<\/p>\n

*Appreciate others. Little things mean BIG to other people. Sometimes, we don\u2019t realize that the little things that we do like a pat on the back, saying \u201chi\u201d or \u201chello\u201d, greeting someone \u201cgood day\u201d or telling Mr. Smith something like \u201chey, I love your tie!\u201d are simple things that mean so much to other people. When we are being appreciative about beautiful things around us and other people, we also become beautiful to them.<\/p>\n

*When you are willing to accept change and go through the process of self improvement online, it doesn\u2019t mean that everyone else is. The world is a place where people have different values and attitudes. Sometimes, even if you think you and your best friend always like to do the same thing together at the same time, she would most likely decline an invitation for self improvement. (Be careful with this one. The other person may think you value them less unless they participate. This can precipitate many undesired results.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Appreciate Where You are in Life<\/span><\/h2>\n

Very few people can be truly labelled as \u2018over-night successes’. Either, they are just lucky, or they have been leading up to that moment with often years of working in the same area. It\u2019s a wonderful feeling to hold on to the things that you already have now, realizing that those are just one of the things you once wished for. A very nice quote says, \u201cWhen the student is ready, the teacher will appear.\u201d\u00a0 We are all here to learn our lessons. Our parents, school teachers, friends, colleagues, officemates, neighbours, etc\u2026 they are our teachers. When we open our doors for self improvement, we increase our opportunities for success<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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“There really are no failures in life; only lessons to be learned.”<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Shannon Panzo<\/em><\/h3>\n

Great Things Happen Here!<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything that happens to us happens for a purpose. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou are likely to learn more out of anything that you fail than learn from passing.\u201d
\nIt makes sense. You will learn many lessons when you fail at something.
\nBut if you pass that event, you have no reason to look for your lessons.<\/p>\n

\u201cWherever you are, that is where you are meant to be, experiencing the things you were meant to experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,13,14],"tags":[1144,1139,196,1140,1141,1145,1143,1142,921,535,577],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-mind-emotions","category-brain-mind-management","category-brain-mind-strategy","category-mind-to-mind-articles","category-mind-to-mind-tips","tag-cameron-diaz","tag-fail","tag-failure","tag-lesson","tag-patch-adams","tag-ralph-fiennes","tag-schizophrenic","tag-self-concidence","tag-self-esteem","tag-self-improvement","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6108,"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/6108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}