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A most important skill set in the times like today are dealing with failures. With all kinds of de-motivational environment around us, companies firing, drop in liquidity and problems in the credit market, companies going bankrupt. The last year has been a breeding place of people, companies and even the governments failing to grow, failing to maintain the status quo. In an environment like this its really important to be motivated despite failures and have future outlook towards everything. Failures generally cause a confidence problem and sense of responsibility feeling towards whatever wrong has happened. These are two major factors which from my experience reduces the motivation levels. One needs to do in case of failure is to get out of the “I failed or I am responsible mode” and start afresh. The motivation is nothing more than mental conditioning, there are lot of ways one can use to condition himself others. Some of them I have used or seen people using are-

1- Take small break just to get out of the failure setting and then come back.

2- Critically examine how one was at fault what he could have done to avoid it and how would he treat a similar situation in future.

3- Talk to people who have more experience of life and/or work than you have.

4- Read biographies of successful people, no one has become great without earning it through failures.

5- Play a lot of video games, they condition the mind set where you fail and just restart the game to cross the levels/stages.

All these things I have seen them work in past when it came to failures. I read a line about obstacles and failures sometime back which sticks “The thing I like about the stones in my way is that once I cross them they become my milestones.

by Prats | on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 at 8:52 am | Personal Management . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.