This is a guest post by Jane Sheeba
It is interesting to find ways to eliminate ego by using failures as stepping stones for success. The process of conversion of failures into stepping stones takes a long way. There are different kinds of achievers in life. Some take their course by birth whereas some others take through a great struggle. In blogging horizon, quite often success stories happen in an unexpected way.
Some blogs make a huge fortune just because of their timely fulfillment of audience wants but not because of all the drums and whistles employed on the blogs. On the other hand, some blogs become a huge flop even though extensive and professional care was taken in all aspects of the blogging horizon.
Whatever might be the background, success is sweet. We shall find how to engage failures in killing one’s ego and to liberate the thrust for success.
Setting wrong standards
In order to deal with professional setbacks we should take time to analyze where we are failing, why we are failing and what needs to be done to overcome failures. In short, we need to identify our blogging mistakes in the first place. Those who do not spare time for analysis and reporting of their work should have time to hear their failures.
Quite often it happens that people set wrong expectations or standards well above their capacity. It makes them over burdened or over stressed and in turn they are prone to deliver less than their potential. Instead of being crushed under heavy burden of unreasonable workloads, it is better to carry on a fair amount of load which you can justify.
When we first set up our discount coupon blog that features jupiter images and photos.com discount coupons, we struggled and failed at certain things just because we set wrong expectations. When we realized this very fact and eliminated those expectations, the bumpy ride was over!
As prevention is better than cure, setting wrong expectations should be avoided so that extra time need not be invested to deal with setbacks.
No one is Omnipotent
The world is big. The knowledge is vast. All this cannot be contained in a single human brain. Failures occur due to mismatch of expertise with the delivery requirements. When you face audience that demands too much of technical expertise, it is better to deploy an expert in the related field than dripping your hands with smudge.
Having an open heart and mind to accept the failure will fill the adrenaline to take up new challenges. It gives fresh insight to your future aspirations. The new goals and targets should be adjusted to reasonable heights and levels so that the past setbacks will not repeat. It is wise to take up failures with positive spirit and positive attitude and focus on the coming objectives rather than reminding the defeat.
Setbacks – time for regeneration
When you come across failures, it should be the time to sit back, relax and assess the failure. Blogs which were dull and were not popular even after taking all kinds of promotions, will be a great upset for the blog owner. After feeding the blogs all through the years and reaping no fruits will be a difficult time in any one’s blogging career.
Successful blogger will make no stone unturned until the winning streak happens. After careful examination of the blogging process and eliminating wrong practices and methods and optimizing proven method, blogs are prone to march towards success.
Know your potential
It is essential to know your potential for blogging. You should know how much you can spend and how much you can consume. A completely discharged battery will not deliver the power. Hence, having right potential and regular recharge will help withstand failures in any career including blogging.
As blogging requires patience, intelligence and both soft work and hard work, your potential should be analyzed and should set limits for your achievements within your capacity to fulfill them. You should never compare your potential with others and backbite yourself. Even though all of your friends had attended the same school and same class that you had attended, each of your friend’s success level will be different and it entirely depends on one’s innate capability.
Hence, instead of being disappointed with failure, it is advisable to march ahead with fresh thought and approach.
The art of humility
When your mind is fully tuned to take up any eventualities that come across your blog that you tread upon, you will not be gripped with fear. You should be prepared to acknowledge the superiority of performers in your line of blogging who had crossed many more milestones well ahead of you. The art of appreciation of others’ capability and the ability to hold on even if you are being humbled will fill your feathers to launch deep into the success zone.
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Jane is the proud owner of Problogging Success, a blog that helps bloggers to achieve blogging success, the professional way. She has a surprise gift (2 free ebooks, Problogging for Newbies and Your Guide to Better Time Management) at her blog. Check our her other blogs: Tech Buzz Online, Merry Relationships and Jane Sheeba.
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Thank you for posting this up! I learned a lot by reading it! Very informative!
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This is great advice, Stacy. Thanks for posting!
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Knowing your potential is the great advice I’ve ever heard about. Well I guess, you just sum it up to generate a motivational article like this. Thanks for the tips, I’ll keep them in mind.
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Great post! It is helpful for bloggers to consider the process of trial and error that you describe in your post. It is similar in life as well–you try new things which may or may not work out, but then you learn from that experience! And later you try something else!
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Our failures help make us, which makes your post so important, Stacy. See the opportunity in failure. Focus on the lesson instead of the initial sting. See immediately where you can improve, take this knowledge and apply it immediately, and you can’t help but grow.
Thanks for sharing!
RB
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Jane @ Problogging Success Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 1:56 am
Ryan, that’s right. We have to look past the pain and there’s usually a treasure of stuff to learn from. Thanks for your comment.
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Truly say too that our failures assist make us, which makes your post so important, Stacy. See the chance in failure. Concentrate on the lesson instead of the first sting. See immediately where you can enhance, take this knowledge and use it immediately, and you cannot assist but develop.
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Initially almost everyone fails but it’s our responsibility to find the reason behind it and improve it so that next time we can succeed. To be successful you must have a spirit to never give up as you may have to try many times before tasting success.
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Jane @ best email marketing software Reply:
October 28th, 2011 at 3:05 am
Perseverance and patience are really keys to taste success. Roads to success are always quite bumpy!
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Sheeba it’s a great piece of work. Advice, suggestions and motivation. Every one has his own story of success. Every individual has fallen at one or the other step of their way to success but the key to success is -
never give up,
look back, identify your mistakes and learn from them,
rise again and move ahead. Success will be yours.
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Even though all of your friends had attended the same school and same class that you had attended, each of your friend’s success level will be different and it entirely depends on one’s innate capability.
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Failure is a great teacher, if we just accept it and just move on and try not to commit the same mistake then surely it will lead to greater heights for us. So don’t be discourage if at first you failed. Just go on, don’t give up and go on.
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yes, to build online succes is must be patient. more learn and action. learning by doing for succcesss…
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In every failure there’s a lesson to be learned. Learn this and you’re good to go.
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Hi Stacy…Failure for me is good because we can learn from it then…
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Nice post Stacy, I have a lot of failure but with the help of my Mom’s advice and Gods word, i can say thank you God, life is full of discouragement and failure but we must have faith that we can make it.
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Hello Stacy…Success is really sweeter if you know you worked hard for it…
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Hi Stacy…Nice post here…Failures really made me strong and it made me think to be a better person too…Thanks for this realizations…
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Hi Jane,
Great insight on this post and I think it applies to all areas of life! I think when you reflect upon your mistakes, you will only improve and come out stronger than before. Mistakes are only human, and it’s only natural in development. Thanks for such a truly spoken article!
Christie
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Failure is always a possibility in any endeavor. The secret to attaining success is to remain committed and to work hard. It is also wise to learn from your own mistakes and the mistakes of others. Believe in yourself!
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Hey,
Stacy, wonderful post. Failure is the ultimate way to success, rather a roller coaster. The thing is we should first try to analyse the failure and then make a fool proof plan to eliminate that failure. Success isn’t too much far from failure.
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Hi Jane!
What an amazing article. I don’t even know where you would get all these ideas from. I’m sure we have all done a few of these, At the end of the day what’s important is to keep moving forward and learning from these mistakes. maybe this article will help some blogger avoid the same mistakes we’ve made.Thanks for the sharing this great artical.
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