Sorting out business failures, you haven't lost it all

Businesses may fail to prosper for many reasons, bad marketing, insufficient funding, poor customer service, non-supportive market conditions or incapable management. But this article is not about escaping business failures, because failures are a part of life and sometimes all the efforts and capital spent on planning/management can go in vain. If you are into reading success stories or biographies of successful businessmen, you'll note a common pattern in all of these memoirs i.e. they started, fell short, learn from their mistakes, tried again and carried on with the pattern until they accomplished their goals. They all seem to agree on this one point, that the secret to their success was their "never say die" approach.

No failure means No improvement:
It may sound quite idiotic, but the more failures you have in your early days the better, only as long as you are learning from these failures and constantly improving. Let the failures take care of your short comings and make sure you work on your weaklings once they have been revealed by some kind of failure. As a result, your chances of a slip-up decrease in later stages. What comes out of this string of "blunders and correction" is an experienced fellow who knows what's actually going to work and what's not.

You are not a failure just because your business fails:
Quite obvious, isn't it? Still many of us go down with their businesses and never recover. You need to realize that there are many other factors that will decide the fate of your business other than your personal skills, and many of these factors are not even in your control. Businesses should be treated like businesses, an investment or a gamble. Sure, you've got to work hard, give your 100 percent, apply all your experience and skills but please don't put your self-belief on stake.

Don't spend a lifetime in grieving over your failures:
In words of Marlon Brando, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger". Luckily business failures hardly kill anyone; they are not the end of the world even if you have lost it all. To tell the truth, financial deficit is the easiest to regain (you can't recapture youth, friends or time once you lose them). Getting into a mourning mode and staying like that forever will make the situation worse. Business failures (or any other failure) are just a stopover in the journey of your life; do not treat them as your final destinations.