1. Finding your sense of direction

Maybe the failure is a blessing in disguise? Well, you probably felt that you weren’t in the right place at all, and that it required something drastic to allow you to think twice again, wondering … “am I doing what I really want”?

Close both eyes now. Think for a moment that is this what you really want to be doing 1 or 2 years down the road?

What was the one last thing that you’ve done with a talent that wasn’t openly celebrated, but have made someone’s day? This may be the key that will help kick start your engine, and fueled by your passion, that will steer you onto a new course / a brand new direction that which you were supposed to be going or should be looking forward to.

2. Kill off all goals

You are already in a state where the weight of the world seems to be too much for your shoulders to handle. The last thing you need is to add on another goal or two to your burden, which you would be too tired to pursue.

Kill off all goals (that includes both the old ones and the new ones).

Instead, build up on the little things — never despise the small beginnings — and find your talents again, and work upwards from the tiny successes you will have achieved day after day.

3. Focus on less

Having more doesn’t make you happier when you are in a state after a massive failure.

Every big results have its humble beginnings.

Focus on the little that you have right now, and instead of splurging to acquire, learn how you can multiply your little into much.

4. Understand that failure doesn’t equals to final

Today’s failure doesn’t meant that you are a failure for life. Despite how the handful of unnecessarily vocal naysayers who tend to pop-up offering “advice” or just to say negative stuff that serves no value to you, remember that they are only a minority. A handful of 5 naysayers is easily overpowered by the rest of the 5,999,999,995 people (rough estimate *smiles*) who either won’t bother much whether or not you had failed today or yesterday, or will be the ones who will cheer you on with encouragement, and hoping you will succeed.

I know of a friend who lost nearly a quarter of a hundred thousand in a night … but though he may be affected only for a day or two, managed to pull through and continued life knowing that he could earn back whatever that was lost.

Failure is only final when you decided that you want to go onto the failstream.

Pull yourself out from the failstream and onto the mainstream or unstream. You can still thrive and get back life in the latter two.

5. System reset

Lastly, you may want to do a “system reset”. That means to start back again from zero, and working up from there.

I once read in some article that in 10 businesses, 5 fail in the 1st year, 3 more fail in the 2nd year, leaving 2, which 1 of it will only last beyond the 5th year.

Reinterpreting this in our lives would mean that out of every 10 things we were committed to do, maybe only 1 will succeed; the rest of the 9 should be discarded as they serve no additional value at all just by hoarding them. Even if a pet project is is part of the 9, you got to learn how to let it go.

Doing such a system reset will leave you only with the high impact stuff, the ones that really matter, and the ones that you would have already mastered it to almost perfection, with a strong focus and knowing a clear direction to steer yourself towards — you will benefit from this.