I am not a television watcher, but when an idea wakes you up in the wee hours of the morning, the TV offers some company in the otherwise silent night. This morning a rerun of “Roseanne” was on, which I didn’t watch when it was on prime time but was better than being sold on losing 115 pounds in 8 months with a body makeover.

This particular episode had a humorous exchange between two men – one was crying over a lost love and the other was not particularly good at dealing with emotions. His advice to his sobbing friend was to ‘get over it.’ He told him to quit his crying, dust himself off, and move on. What refreshing advice.

How many times do we spend too much energy over-analyzing a failure? It is natural to mourn a loss or be sad when things don’t work out the way we wanted, but to let a disappointment paralyze us or keep us from doing what needs to be done is criminal. Evaluate the situation, learn from it what you can, and move on! Bad things happen and while there are some things we can do nothing about, we can control how we react.

One of my first management hires in my company years ago was a gentleman who had a lot more management experience than I did, but his approach was not consistent with our culture. I gave this man too much leeway and it cost me. He lasted about five months, which was four months too long. In the end, I felt like a failure. However, when I looked at what I learned from it, I realized the lesson was a valuable one and helped me to continue to grow my business.

Successful entrepreneurs have mastered the art of learning from failure. Read Rich Dad Robert Kiyosaki’s book, Before You Quit Your Job and you’ll see how many times he failed but learned from the experience. Sometimes, you can even learn more from a failure than from success – it’s all in how you look at it. So when is the last time you failed? If you’re not failing, you’re not taking enough risks.