How to Deal With Your Shortcomings

No one wants to feel like a failure, so accepting your shortcomings can be difficult. Feelings of failure and inadequacy can cause stress and anxiety, but you can learn how to deal with these feelings. Acceptance and positive reframing will help you to deal with your shortcomings in a healthy way. Whether you have recently lost your job or failed a semester of college, you can get back on the track to success.

Instructions

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  Use positive reframing. In other words, try to see the good in your situation. Did a recent layoff give you a chance to spend more time with your family or pursue other dreams? Try to look at things in a more positive light.

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  Use humor to cheer yourself up. Appropriately used humor can help ease your stress and relieve tension. Try to laugh at yourself every now and then.

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  Surround yourself with positive people. Socializing and hearing positive things from others will help ease your stress and deal with shortcomings. Talk to someone who went through the same things to get advice and share your feelings.

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  Spend some time helping others. Preoccupy yourself with other people's problems to take your mind off your own. You may come to find that there are people out there with much more serious problems than your own.

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  Meditate or pray to relieve your stress.

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  Be proactive. If you recently lost a job, try to find a better one. Do something to repair your situation, and you will forget about your shortcomings.