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If you’re very, very lucky, your life will go smoothly from one end to the other, and you’ll always get what you want in the way you want it. You’ll have all the success you could ask for, you won’t want any mistakes, and, of course, there won’t be any setbacks. 

If you are that person, congratulations – that’s a rare thing indeed (and a lot of people would be hard-pressed to believe it’s even possible). But if you’re like almost everyone else in the world, there are going to be setbacks in your life, and plenty of them. However, just because they’re inevitable, that doesn’t mean they automatically have to be negative. Read on to find out what we mean. 

Time To Reassess

If you come across a setback in life, you might instinctively assume it’s a bad thing and you just try to get past it as soon as you can so you can keep moving down the road you were on. But although that might seem like the right thing to do, what if the setback could be seen as something more like a pause – just a red traffic light on that road that’s going to change to green at any moment, but that gives you a chance to change direction if you need to. 

To keep the metaphor going, while you’re waiting for that light to change, you can take some time to reassess your journey and make sure you’re really on the right path. If you’re not, that setback could be what you need to move forward and do something else. If you are, you can keep going where you were going once you get past the issue, whether it’s a severance dispute, health issues, an unexpected bill, or anything else. 

You’ll Learn Lessons 

Once you encounter a setback in life, it’s a good idea not to ignore it, no matter how painful or unpleasant it might be. For one thing, ignoring something won’t make it go away and might actually make it worse – if you don’t deal with it, it’ll become more and more difficult to handle. 

For another thing, if you face your setbacks head-on and really look at what’s caused them and what you could have done to avoid them (assuming there was anything you could have done because, of course, sometimes there won’t be), you can learn some massively important lessons that will really help you with whatever steps you decide to take next. At the very least, you won’t make the same mistakes you did before, so that’s already a positive thing, and it might even be that what you learn helps you become more successful than you would have been, ensuring you can turn a negative into a positive quite easily. 

You’ll Become Resilient 

Coming across a setback in life isn’t unusual, and it’s what you do with that setback that really makes the difference to you. If you keep getting back up even when things seem bad, and if you keep pushing forward even if it’s hard to, you’ll become more and more resilient. 

Over time, that means setbacks won’t be such an issue for you anymore, and almost anything that happens (barring complete disasters, of course) won’t be any more than a slight bump on the road.