The week between Christmas and the New Year is the time when I take a peak in the rear view mirror at the exciting moments, fortunate/unfortunate events that have taken place throughout the year in my personal and professional life & analyze "What could I do better in the forthcoming year?"

An analysis of the feeling of success/failure clearly shows that it can have an enormous impact on our behavior and emotions, but as Chris Widener in "Learn from Failure and Confirm with Success" has rightly mentioned that both failure and success are good... if their roles are clearly defined. We all agree that success is good. Success is good because it gives you the momentum you need, typically motivating you to go that extra mile, and also motivating you to set higher targets.

Success confirms a lot of things too-Our decisions, our hunches, our team work, our strategies. Success builds our self esteem, our self image. Our confidence levels go soaring high! But we also need to remember that as one climbs the ladder of success, we need to check occasionally to make sure that it is leaning against the right wall. Now, what about failure? Why should one embrace failure. How in the world can failure be beneficial?

As the old adage saying goes, “Learn from your mistakes”. Failures help you realize what didn’t work, so you can brainstorm and find out what will work. It can be your greatest teachers. It teaches us to rethink our plans, teaches us to change our decisions, our strategies, our team work. Failure eventually teaches us that we need to change a lot of things! And think about it…when you are down, we have no other choice, but climb up .When we look at it that way, we set ourselves up for a powerfully successful start and get you where you would like to be, only this time more cautiously and more wisely.