Do You Feel Like a Failure?

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via livingyourawesome.com

What to say, think, and do when the feeling of failure takes over your life.

Is it impossible to escape the feeling of failure? After all, don’t we feel we fail more in life than succeed? You’ve probably heard plenty of famous quotes about failure. “Giving up is the only way to fail.” “If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try, and try again.” There are literally hundreds of famous quotes on failure. They point to it being an inevitable truth of existence. And how turning failure into a learning experience is what successful people do. There is truth in all of those famous quotes. But knowing useful ways to think about failure is one thing. Understanding how to actually do it is an entirely different thing.

In this article, we’re going to take a journey that unpacks everything that comes with the thought – “I feel like a failure.”

We’ll discover where that thought and feeling originates. Who has those feelings? What you can do to recognize the root cause of failure? And how you can turn the feeling of failure upside down to make it do all the great things those famous quotes say it does.

How Do You Know if You’re a Failure?

You know you’re a failure when you feel there’s a lot of judgment on you that either you or others have placed. You also will notice you have low self-confidence. You don’t feel great about where you’re going, what you’re doing, how you feel about yourself, and you just feel stuck. Maybe you think your life is dull, lacking meaning, and when you look to the future, you don’t see happiness.

The truth is you’re not a failure; nobody is a “failure.” By definition, we’re actually succeeding way more every minute of life than we’re failing. Think about all the hundreds of micro-tasks you do every day that end in success. When was the last time you failed at brushing your teeth? How about putting your socks on…?

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