Failures are the key to your success in sticking to your healthy lifestyle. In this video I share how to turn your mistakes into the road map for reaching your Whole & Healthy lifestyle goals.
I’ve been trying to make granola and last night I thought I had found the right recipe, but… I did not. So I am in the middle of my Failure to Success process right now, to create a granola that I can use in the mornings with my fruit salad. I’m looking for something that’s sugar free, doesn’t have oil in it, and will be satisfying to me in the morning or in the evening when I feel like having a little something, and I’m trying to avoid eating sweet things like that, because I do have a sweet tooth!
Whatever you’re trying to do in life, whether it’s around diet and lifestyle, starting an exercise program, creating a new business for yourself, whatever you’re doing, you are going to confront failures. It’s a part of life. And in my opinion, this is not something that you should try to avoid.
Failure to Success is one of the tools that I use in my work with my clients to help them succeed.
Other tools are:
- Using a Whole & Healthy Journal to listen to and learn from the messages from your body and your experiences.
- To Imagine Yourself Whole & Healthy to create a clear vision of what your goals are, what you want to achieve.
- To embrace all parts of yourself, your strong and mature side, your inner child, your shadow side, and bring them together into a Whole & Healthy YOU. That’s where your power really lies.
- To become an explorer, seeing the beauty and magic of the world around you and discovering what it can bring you and what you have to offer.
So, as I’m trying to perfect a granola recipe I’ve been having to practice my failure to success process.
The first batch that I made tasted pretty good. But the recipe that I used said to use maple syrup and I didn’t happen to have any. I used golden syrup. And then I realized it had ingredients in it that I didn’t want. It was so sweet! And I could feel the impact of it on my body.
I went on a hunt for another recipe. I found one that I liked that used blended dates to sweeten. I combined ingredients from both recipes. But it wasn’t quite it either. When I get it perfected, I will post the final recipe here on my blog.
The failure to success process:
- Try the thing.
- Evaluate what happened. Did you make faulty assumptions? Was it execution error? Did you have faulty information?
- Do some more research. Ask friends, go online. What changes can you make to address those things that you found in your evaluation that caused the problem?
- Ask for some divine guidance. Say a prayer, ask your ancestors, and open yourself up to spiritual inspiration. Be quiet and listen for the messages that you receive.
- Then do the thing again, incorporating those changes that you decided you’re going to make.
- Evaluate again! Contemplate where it was better and where it was worse. Look at the changes that you made and how they affected your outcome.
- Rinse and Repeat! Do the thing, evaluate the thing, decide what you’re going to do to make it better this time and then do it again. Keep doing it until you have success or you realize that this isn’t worth your time and effort anymore.
- Lastly, celebrate your wins and share your success with supportive people. Recognize the fact that you have failed your way to success. Celebrate that!
This is part of the process of incorporating new ideas, new skills, new things into your life. Failures are going to happen and it’s something to celebrate because this is what is part of the process of making it is success.
Failures teach us what doesn’t work.
Failures, your mistakes, can have a gift of showing something that you hadn’t known was there. You might learn a new skill. You might discover things you didn’t know before.
Failure teaches you resilience. This is something that you’re going to need going forward because no matter what, life requires resilience. If you have resilience, you’ll recognize that you can pick yourself up and keep on moving forward.
It helps build confidence. Each time you overcome a failure, each time you fail your way to success, you will have more and more confidence in your ability to figure things out. You’ll have the confidence and the courage to take the next step and the next step and the next step.
The failure to success process is so important. Don’t be afraid to fail!
I’d love to hear from you. What things are you struggling with? How have you failed your way to success in the past?
Take charge of your life, make a lasting commitment to a healthy lifestyle, and step into your true bad-ass, powerful, beautiful self and bring your gifts to the world!
