How To
Recover
From
Failure
By Adam Kidan

Wallow
• Allow yourself to feel
everything you need to
feel to help ease the
suffering!
• But don’t get stuck
wallowing for too long…

Be !
honest
• With clear eyes,
map out what went
wrong and why!
• You can call on
somebody you trust
to offer an outside
perspective!
• Acknowledging any
mistakes is
essential to
ensuring that they
don’t happen again!
• Don’t forget to
forgive yourself if
you do make
mistakes

Find what
makes you
happy
• Positive thoughts can
ward off depressive
tailspins during hard
times!
• Negative emotions can
hinder the process of
recovery and make it
hard to find broad
solutions

Count your blessings
• Every day, write down what you’re grateful for!
• If you face a setback, you have access to a stack of
lists that prove how much is going right in your life!
• If you get consumed by your setbacks, recall the
successes that you have achieved

Help somebody
• In the wake of
failure, look for
ways to be helpful !
• Thinking about
helping others
reframes your
thought process!
• Being focused
more on helping
than winning will
help you learn
more

Look for the opportunity
• Setbacks are stressful, but there are ways to cope!
• To manage your stress, think about what
opportunities are being created!
• Finding that opportunity will help you move
forward faster

Think big
• Visualizing
success allows
you to “trick”
your brain into
helping you
make
something
possible!
• Visualize the
process
towards
success

Think small • Don’t lose sight of other
opportunities on the way!
• Take small steps to help
you test and plan your
way back to success

Don’t get hung up on it
• Setbacks can feel personal, yet don’t personalize your loss
and remind yourself that things will change!
• You’ll be more resilient if you know you can change your lot

Be consistent
• When you’re ready to get back
into the swing of things, come
up with a consistent, realistic
game plan for networking!
• Daily work toward your goal is
key to building momentum,
and making working toward
your goal a habit will lessen
the impact of individual
setbacks

Don’t isolate yourself
• Being alone with your thoughts won’t help
you get past anything!
• Start small, spending time with your friends
and family, then go to networking events to
connect with new people.

Try
again
• Just because you fail doesn’t mean you
can’t try anything again !
• When you do get a great idea you want to
put aloft again, be prepared to explain how
and why your new venture will be different