You’d be a unique person if you’d never encountered a setback in your life.
The main challenge is how you deal with a setback.
There are people who give in and wallow in a miasma of desperation while others view the setback as an opportunity to spring back and start life afresh.
There are a number of ways that you can deal with setbacks.
Some of them are:
Acknowledging the setback is the first important step towards dealing with it.
This way you assess the setback and acknowledge the full extent of its damage in your life.
It gives you an opportunity to evaluate your situation making it easy to strategize on how you overcome the setback. Failure to acknowledge the problem only serves to compound it increasing its effects on your life.
Do not shift blame to others. No matter what or who caused the setback it is important that you accept your role in the whole process.
There must be something you would have done better to alleviate the problem.
Shifting responsibility to others denies you the chance to heal and overcome the setback in manner that will leave you better placed if it was to strike again in the future.
Certain setbacks such as health problems and financial crisis can reoccur. It is important that when any of them occurs you face them without blaming others and find solutions. This way you emerge triumphant if they strike again.
Giving yourself time to heal is crucial in dealing with setbacks.
The urge to solve the problem causing the setback immediately might be overwhelming. If this is done shortly after the setbacks it leads to temporally solutions that only allows the problem to escalate.
Allowing the setback to heal slowly gives you the opportunity to face it on a sober mind ending up with a permanent solution to the problem.
Solving the problem requires you to step out of your comfort zone.
This is because most of the setbacks are caused by factors we could have solved earlier if an individual was more daring and willing to exploit their potential.
Comfort zone restricts us to solutions that do not demand the best from us. Overcoming setbacks demands that you give your best so that the problem is solved permanently.
