How To Restart Momentum After Failure

Image via WikipediaHow do you get started on your goals again after suffering a massive debilitating failure that has completely immobilized you? (Pretty descriptive don't you think? It is really never this bad. We just think it is, and our minds are powerful.) By the way we have all been there at some time.

You have to grieve the loss of your time, efforts and possibly finances as some of these would be lost to you at the present moment. (Bear with me here.) Whatever you have been told, as humans we need to feel our way through these emotions, we need to process the failure or the loss.

Avoid wallowing in it though, or having a pity party.

Just process it, think it through, analyze what happened as soon as you get your emotions under control again. You should finish processing this as soon as you can. Don't get caught up in something you cannot change, and we cannot change what's past.

When you are past the grieving stage, start to get your mind wrapped around your dream and your future life again. Revisit your goals.

Get back up and dust yourself off. Shake off the past by re-focusing on one small action you can take right away. Start the planned action right away, as soon as you make the decision. Draw deep on your supreme will power if you have to, but complete the task immediately.

If you have to, set new smaller goals that take you in the same direction. Set them for that day alone. Or, if this is even too much, set them for that hour only. Set yourself up for success by building small momentum first. This helps get you back on track.

With previous massive failure, your subconscious could be programmed to fail now, and you might have difficulty pursuing long term goals particularly so soon after. If this is the case, you need to succeed at small tasks and goals, then celebrate each new success with all the spirit you can muster. You need to re-anchor strong positive thought and emotions to your new smaller successes.

This will soon reinforce in your subconscious mind that you CAN meet your goals, and set you back on the positive path again. When you're able to consistently meet your hourly/daily goals, then start setting them for two days or a week, and then work yourself slowly up to your long term goals.

With your confidence rapidly building again, you will soon be creating massive momentum towards what you want. At any given time we might get stopped temporarily by a great disappointment, it is truly our own fault if we allow it to stop us completely.

Sometimes we have to start small to win big!

See you next time. As always, Go For It!

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