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Accepting Professional Failure: Tips For Bouncing Back

Three tips to help you get on your feet even stronger

By Sally From The Shine ProjectPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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Accepting Professional Failure: Tips For Bouncing Back
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You have received the long-awaited email... Your job application has not been accepted. How are you going to react? Will you let yourself be overwhelmed by the initial feeling of despair? Or will you bounce back from this professional failure and learn from this experience? Whether it's after a failed interview, a missed promotion, or a presentation that didn't go as well as you intended, it's essential to recover from professional failure. Not only will your next unsuccessful attempts be easier to live with, but above all, you will dare.

This is the biggest impact that failure has: it makes us fear more failure and stop daring and taking chances.

Yes, staying in the comfort zone is nice, but it is by taking the risk of falling and getting up that we grow.

As crazy as it sounds, failure and success go hand in hand! As someone who experienced a certain amount of professional failure but managed to bounce back even more strongly, here are my 3 valuable tips for accepting professional failure and bouncing back with confidence!

Tip #1: define the notion of success and failure for yourself

Take a moment. Reflect. Do some introspection work.

What does failure and success mean for YOU?

What does a successful career and life really look like to you? What are the qualities it has?

What do you really fear: a loss of money, time, or social status? Maybe a little of all of them... More often than not, what prevents us from taking a risk and scares us in the event of failure is the opinion of others. Our relatives, our colleagues, our friends, and all those people who may judge us for not having landed this job or obtained this promotion can make us very cautious.

Put it into perspective, tell yourself that there will always be someone who will think that you have failed! If you decide to pursue your dream of becoming independent and being your own boss? Some will think it's a failure because you left the stability and guaranteed pay of a salaried job. This something I've personally experienced with some family members.

That's why it's essential to define your own notion of success and failure.

This is your life and you can't live it as you wish if you judge your own success and failure according to the views and opinions of others.

Remember that the more you doubt yourself and your abilities, the more importance you will give to the opinions of others, and the more you will be afraid of failure. You may be all the more hesitant to take risks and live your dreams.

Tip #2: accept professional failure and put it into perspective

Always try to put things into perspective!

So okay you didn't get the job..Is it really that serious? No, you your career is not simply because you got bad one feedback from your client on your last delivery.

Look at the bigger picture and don't focus simple on your failure.

You have the right not to be perfect! If you doubt this last point, remember that perfection is the enemy of action, and action, the only way to grow and move forward.

So take a step back and try to understand what went wrong. Try to put a finger on the causes of your failure.

Tip #3: see failure as a learning experience

By taking a step back and putting this failure into perspective, you have now carried out a detailed investigation into the causes of your failure and understand what went wrong.

Now is the time to act! Focus on the causes, reasons and factors that are within your control zone and try to learn from them: what skills did you lack? how can you improve? can you follow a training to improve your weak point?

Make an action plan and work on it! your request for funding for your business project has been rejected? Take a look at investors' points of concern, adress them and try your luck again.

Every professional failure is an opportunity to learn something new. Whether it's getting to know yourself better, or discovering a skill to develop, you will always have a good lesson to learn from it to grow out of it and become a better version of yourself!

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