Using Failure as Fuel
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Are you afraid to fail? Failure doesn’t need to be something that you fear. In fact, when you embrace failure, you’re that much closer to becoming successful. Today I’m going to be talking about reframing failure and facing our fear of failing. I share a few stories about some of the most successful people in the world and how they failed but got back up again and pushed past their failures to succeed. I also share a story about how I almost let a $45,000 mistake cause me to give up and how this failure led me to successfully grow a seven-figure business.
What’s In This Episode:
How to recover from failure
How to embrace failure
Strategies to overcome fear and move forward
Why you should use failure as fuel to cultivate success
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 11 of Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:13.0 | Join Tanya this season as she explores the theme of small changes for big impact. |
| 0:17.5 | To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply go to tanya |
| 0:22.2 | dalton.com slash podcast. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello everyone. Welcome to |
| 0:31.1 | Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 132. We're continuing on our theme of season 11 with that topic of small changes for big impact. |
| 0:44.7 | And today, we're talking about using failure as fuel. |
| 0:49.4 | So in this episode, we're going to talk about the F word. |
| 0:52.6 | That's right, failure, which is sometimes seen as a |
| 0:56.8 | worse word to say than the other F word out there. But today we're going to work on re-framing |
| 1:02.5 | failure and facing our fear of failure. Instead of letting it defeat us, I want us to use failure |
| 1:08.8 | as an opportunity to springboard us forward. I'm going to share |
| 1:13.4 | with you how some really successful people that I'm pretty sure you've heard of have had to |
| 1:18.8 | overcome failures in order to become successful. And we're going to talk about how we can change |
| 1:24.9 | our perspective, how we can shift how we feel about failure, |
| 1:28.7 | and instead of seeing it as something that's holding us back or dragging us down, |
| 1:33.1 | seeing it as something that is actually propelling us forward. |
| 1:37.0 | So let's begin with that F word, failure. |
| 1:40.8 | What is it about that word that makes everyone cringe? |
| 1:47.9 | Something about it makes us immediately feel ashamed and makes us want to hang our heads down. We tend to beat ourselves up well past the point of remorse |
| 1:54.3 | when we have something that fails, as if the failure itself wasn't bad enough. For some reason, as we grow in age, most of us have acquired this learned response about failure, |
| 2:06.9 | and it's not a positive response, because we do everything we possibly can to avoid failure at all costs. |
| 2:14.7 | But the truth is, we didn't really start out this way, did we? Our parents didn't tell us to |
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