How to fail forward..
1. Appreciate the value of failure. Soichino Honda, founder of Honda Motors says: "Many people dream of success. To me success can be achieved only through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success only represents 1% of your work that results from 90% of that which is called failure. Very few unacquainted with failure will never know the true joy of success. Failure strengthens you."
2. Don’t Take failure personally. There is a huge difference between "I have failed" and "i am a failure". By taking failure personally, the mistakes will seem a lot bigger. Learn to accept your limitations as well as strengths. Understand that everything you do isn’t going to be always successful and tell yourself:" I may messed things up. I’ll do better next time."
3. Let failure Redirect you. If you keep hitting the wall, it may be time to back up and look for the door.If you’re repeatedly experiencing failure but you want to fail forward, allow your mistakes to redirect you.
4. Keep a sense of humour. It’s easy to laugh when everything is going great, but it’s important to laugh when everything is going wrong. Nothing improves emotional health like laughter.
5. Ask why, not who. When things go wrong, the natural tendency is to look for someone to blame. People who blame others for their failures never overcome them.To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can’t do that if you don’t take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.
6. Make failure a learning experience. Willingness to learn from failure and the ability to overcome it are inseparably linked to each other. If you’re not continually learning, you’re going to make the same mistakes over and over again, It’s okay if you fall down as long as you learn something as you get up.
7. See the big picture. Nothing is better at helping you deal with failure than perspective. Life isn’t a snapshot, it’s a moving picture.
8. Don’t give up. History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They finally won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
*extracted from Your Roadmap for Success by John C. Maxwell*