Nature Tanka Haiku Poem About Success and Failure in Life 5 7 5 7 7

How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?

Failure seems to be a dirty word in our culture. We avoid it like the plague and hide in shame if we do fail. The truth is, though, that failure is your greatest asset.

Only by putting yourself out into the great unknown and facing the fear of failure can we break out of the chains that hold us back. The most successful people are professionals at failure because it takes multiple times of failure before you succeed.

If you’re not failing it likely means you’re not doing anything or at least anything challenging that builds your character. Failure is only a fully negative experience when we fail to learn from our experiences. Each time we don’t reach our goal we become more efficient and gain insightful knowledge we didn’t have before.

In this tanka haiku (a form which builds off the traditional 5 syllable / 7 syllable / 5 syllable format of a haiku to add two final lines that are 7 syllables each) I tried to portray this concept of failure being something that actually waters seeds for success. It burns up all the old fences and fears we were trapped behind to open up a vast, open field for planting.

A Nature Tanka Haiku Poem About Success and Failure

Failure sets fires
to fields of the familiar--
fertile ground for change.
Growth sprouts from the past's ashes.
Roots drink water earned through pain.

Justin Farley

Failure is going to be painful, but it’s reward is wisdom that propels us towards success. What’s familiar and comfortable are often the greatest roadblocks towards realizes our dreams because we are so attached to what is that we’re not willing to risk what could be.

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Changing Your Perspective Of Failure

Embracing failure for success begins by changing the lens we are looking through.

Here are some brief tips to start changing the way you see failure in your life:

• See failure as the price to pay for valuable knowledge.
• Decide that the fear of failure is less important than taking chances in life.
• What am I afraid of? Is it failing or others’ judgement of me? If there’s people in your life who are going to make you feel terrible every time you take a chance and fail, they may not be the friends you want in your life.
• When you fail don’t just beat yourself up. Learn from it, otherwise failure is something to avoid. What did I do right? What worked? What didn’t work? What could I change about myself to improve the chance of success next time?
• Perhaps the most powerful thing to try is just making the decision to say, “who cares?”. Who cares if you fail? What’s the big deal? That didn’t work. Now I can go back to the drawing board and adjust my strategy. Who cares? Because if you’re not failing at anything you’re a coward who’s so terrified of failure that you don’t risk anything and take no chances. Is that any better?
• Do you want to be a bold, confident person who is unafraid to fail and knows they will pick themselves up and try again? Or a powerless slave of fear who is crippled by what ifs and other people’s opinions?

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