Learn from your mistakes

Making mistakes is a common phenomenon when carrying out complex tasks such as the administration and management of a business, especially if we add the fact of being first-time entrepreneurs or with very little experience. That is why we can not get discouraged or let them significantly affect the way in which we project ourselves towards the following tasks. The fact of making a mistake should be appreciated as a natural process, so the criticism has to be limited to the right analysis, which allows us to obtain useful results to work on improving our way of facing the problems.

We can obtain some benefit from the mistakes we make, by correctly thinking about them and applying effective learning strategies. But for this we must improve the perspective with which we analyze each specific situation. During the development of this guide we will be talking about mistakes when carrying out different actions in our business and what strategies we can apply in order to gain experience from them and minimize the impact they have on us.

Review the task and identify the mistake

The failure of a strategy does not mean that it has been wrong in its entire composition, that is why before discarding the different actions that we have carried out and that led us to failure, we must focus on identifying where the error is. In this way it will be much easier to correct our strategies and reformulate them again to undertake the following actions.

The idea of this technique is to learn to focus as much as possible on the aspects that should be discarded and make the most of those that do work. In this way we avoid losing positive processes of our plan that did not influence the bad result we have obtained. To identify the error, a thorough analysis of each of the executed steps must be carried out.

Create secondary strategies

Having a plan B will always be very useful to avoid slowing down our progress in case we do not obtain the expected results.

Generally we form the idea of what we will do after we achieve what we want, however, we do not have backup strategies to act in case things do not go as we wish. This means that when an error appears in one of our processes, we do not have enough planning to deal with the situation. The key to being a good strategist lies in anticipating possible outcomes and having a hedging plan to react quickly in each situation.

Having said that, the best analysis we can make is to anticipate both winning and losing possibilities, knowing in advance how to behave in both cases. In this way, regardless of the result obtained, we will know how to react and not waste our time and resources.

Try again

As we have said before, error is a very common phenomenon when it comes to administering or managing a business. Knowing this, you should not get discouraged in case things do not go as you want. Many entrepreneurs who see the failure of their projects give up at the first attempt and do not bet on their idea again.

The truth is that if you have already made a mistake, it is very likely that you are closer to achieving it, since every mistake made is experience that we accumulate at a subconscious level. Do not abandon your goals because some of your strategies have failed, try to perfect them by working on them from a different perspective. Assume the mistakes from a positive point of view, eliminate the defeatist spirit and learn to control your emotions.