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4 Ways to Let Go of Your Business Failures in 2022
In life, sometimes we fail. And it’s the same in business.
Business failures are more common than most people think. In fact, only 78.5 percent of small businesses survive their first year. And that’s even without the COVID-19 pandemic in the equation. According to estimates from the Federal Reserve, the impact of the pandemic in smaller businesses wasn’t as bad as we feared.
You might have experienced business failures in the past and the end of the pandemic is still not yet in sight, but these aren’t enough reasons to give up. You can always bounce back and thrive during these difficult times. To do that, you must first let go of your past failures.
Here are 4 ways to let go of your business failures in 2022:
1. Embrace failures and use them to succeed
Keep in mind that most successful entrepreneurs have failed in the past, and some even made a lot of mistakes before succeeding. If your failure is something that could have been avoided, then you can take it as a lesson learned. If you’ve done your best and put all your effort into it and it still failed, then it must have been quite a difficult path. Not all is lost: This just means you have grown from the experience.