Seeing Success In Failure

Enjoy the journey and let go of trying to control HOW things manifest.

Often failure is just a warning sign that you’re holding on too tight, that you need more flow and ease in your day to day journey, living in the moment more, not always focusing on the future.

It’s about letting go of having to have things be a certain way, and feeling that you have to be in control all the time otherwise your dreams won’t manifest.

Even as a free spirit you may have fallen into this trap, because despite your strong desire to be free and easy about things, it’s sometimes hard to resist trying to force what you want to happen, and therefore becoming too attached to the outcome.

The result of this is that you begin to dislike the journey, your vibration changes, and you encounter even more difficulties.

The answer is to allow the perfect outcome to arrive by being in the vibration of what you want to manifest, but let go of the details at the same time.

Let go of the idea of exactly what your success should look like. 

Often we’ve become so obsessed with how everyone else sees success, that we lose touch with what it actually looks like for US.

When one of my businesses took a downturn – I saw that as massive failure.  But it forced me into a situation where I need to do something fast – so I did the only thing I could think of, which was something I’d wanted to do for ages – I started a dog walking business. 

By doing that I discovered many latent talents, I spent 5 years loving what I was doing every day – and it taught me firsthand to see the success in failure, because I realised that the truth was, I hadn’t been happy beforehand anyway. 

I’d been basing my happiness on other people’s values with the result that I'd ended up on a path, which, if I’m honest, I'd begun to hate.  The ‘failure’ that led me to start my dog walking business was, in hindsight, the best thing that could ever have happened to me.

I recognised the success in failure.

So keep in mind what success really looks like to you, and if you’re feeling unhappy following your dream, perhaps it isn’t really your dream at all.

Realise that behind every apparent failure is a limiting belief or past fear coming up to be healed. 

We all have fears and limiting beliefs that lay dormant until they’re challenged.  And the only time they will be challenged is when we head out on a new path.

Whatever the reason you’ve given yourself for not following your dream before, in reality it’s usually based in fear or lack of belief, so it’s only natural that these little gremlins will appear at some point in your journey in order to be dealt with.

This is the point where many say things like – you see, I knew I’d be no good at this, or I must have been crazy to think I could pull this off,  and then give up.  But the beauty of seeing success in failure is that you realise that by facing that fear you take yourself one step closer to manifesting your vision.  And it’s as simple as putting one foot in front of the other… learning as you go.

Always expect the unexpected.

By definition when you’re doing something new, you’re going into unchartered territory - so it stands to reason that things will happen that you don’t expect.  And when something takes an unexpected turn, we have a tendency to immediately see that as failure – when in fact it’s really another stepping stone to success. 

Allow those unexpected events to be signs that there may be an easier, faster way to your goal, rather than demanding it be unfold the way you think it should.