While it may be difficult, it will be to your best benefit to look at those hard moments as windows of opportunity. Much of these low moments teach you incredible lessons of how you can grow and develop both personally and professionally.

1. Failure,
Life’s
Greatest
Lessons
By
Sarang
Ahuja
www.sarangahujafinance.com

2. Introduction
• The
road
to
success
can
be
long
and
arduous.
As
a
young
professional,
you
will
face
a
variety
of
different
obstacles.
But
the
one
biggest
obstacle
that
we
will
all
face
in
life
is
the
lesson
of
failure.

3. Windows
of
Opportunity
• When
it
comes
to
failure,
these
moments
o>en
carry
a
nega?ve
connota?on
with
them.
And
why
wouldn’t
they?
In
most
cases,
you
are
o>en
found
at
your
lowest,
nursing
a
bruised
ego
to
move
on
from
the
frustra?on,
disappointment,
and
demoraliza?on
of
a
situa?on.
• As
much
as
it
may
seem
hopeless
right
now,
you
have
to
look
at
these
disappoin?ng
moments
as
windows
of
opportunity.
Many
people
have
even
gone
as
far
as
to
say
that
failure
is
really
the
greatest
teacher
of
them
all.
•
While
it
may
be
hard
now,
understanding,
internalizing,
and
accep?ng
these
situa?ons
for
something
greater
than
what
they
are
will
allow
you
to
grow
both
personally
and
professionally
in
the
best
way
possible.

4. Teachable
Lessons
• Now
to
do
this,
you
need
to
see
these
disappoin?ng
moments
as
life
lessons.
As
difficult
as
it
may
be,
framing
these
incidences
in
this
manner
will
allow
you
to
learn
and
uncover
those
hidden
teachable
moments
so
that
you
can
not
just
move
on,
but
also
grow
in
a
bigger
and
beIer
way.
• To
help
you
deduce
what
exactly
those
lessons
are
and
how
they
can
help
improve
your
chances
of
future
success,
I
have
provided
various
guidelines
so
that
you
can
understand,
plan,
evaluate,
and
execute
later
on
down
the
road.

5. Evaluate
the
Situation

6. Evaluate
the
Situation
• Every
young
professional
needs
to
understand
that
success
can
only
come
from
failure.
Much
like
any
inopportune
situa?on,
failures
and
downfalls
set
our
expecta?on
for
success.
It
is
through
those
situa?ons
where
you
are
able
to
evolve
personally
and
professionally
within
your
trade.
• To
help
alleviate
the
pains
of
failure,
you
need
to
see
failure
as
it
is.
Start
by
evalua?ng
the
situa?on.
Ask
yourself
those
overarching
ques?ons.
What
happened?
What
did
you
do?
What
could
you
have
done
to
prevent
this?
• By
analyzing
the
moment
in
this
holis?c
manner,
you
will
be
able
to
figure
out
the
various
weaknesses
and
flaws
that
you
can
improve
upon
within
the
future.
U?lize
those
low
situa?ons
as
experiences
or
opportuni?es
for
change.
This
will
allow
you
to
expand
your
knowledge
and
embrace
the
situa?on
in
a
more
posi?ve
manner.

7. Assume
Responsibility

8. Assume
Responsibility
• Like
it
or
not,
the
blame
game
will
always
persist.
No
one
likes
to
truly
admit
fault,
especially
if
it
is
a
big
one.
But
in
order
to
grow,
you
need
to
accept
the
moment
and
assume
responsibili?es
for
your
failure.
• Once
you
have
assumed
the
responsibili?es
of
your
mistakes,
you
will
be
able
to
leverage
your
nega?ves
as
an
asset
and
tool
in
how
to
improve
your
day-­‐to-­‐day
opera?ons
within
your
job.
• That
reflec?ve
por?on
of
analyzing
and
accep?ng
said-­‐
par?cular
mishaps
can
provide
you
the
necessary
steps
in
preven?ng
the
failure
from
happening
again.
• As
stated
before,
you
want
to
u?lize
this
as
a
learning
experience.
If
you
were
brave
enough
to
risk
it
in
the
first
place,
you
should
be
confident
enough
to
accept
the
mistake
as
it
stands.

9. Create
a
Plan

10. Create
a
Plan
• Once
you
have
understood
and
accepted
your
failure,
you
want
to
make
sure
you
are
moving
in
a
progressively
beIer
way.
In
order
to
professionally
develop
and
grow
from
your
failure,
you
want
to
create
a
plan.
• For
novice
young
professionals,
the
first
failure
will
always
be
the
most
painful
and
regreIable.
The
process
makes
you
not
only
ques?on
your
vision
and
goals
for
your
company,
but
also
ques?on
your
abili?es
as
a
person.
•
When
this
happens,
you
need
to
accept,
plan,
and
move
on.
When
planning,
think
of
specific
overarching
goals
that
you
want
to
accomplish.
• These
goals
will
allow
you
to
create
specific
tangible
steps
that
can
help
you
set
your
sights
on
success.

11. Put
into
Action

12. Put
into
Action
• To
fully
move
on,
it
is
impera?ve
that
you
create
ac?on
out
of
this
en?re
process.
Thinking
is
easy.
Ac?ng
is
difficult.
It
is
the
ability
to
put
your
thoughts,
your
concepts,
and
your
dreams
into
something
incredible.
Use
your
failures
to
mo?vate
you.
Use
them
to
spark
innova?on.
Whatever
is
the
case;
use
those
moments
to
create
ac?on.