Handling failure could be perhaps the biggest test of how successful someone becomes and whether or not they achieve their goals.

At some point in time we are all going to fail, the keys are how you view it and how you respond to it.

From a cricketing perspective most people I come across have reasonable levels of talent or traits that could enable them to reach their goals. We all have good periods, whether it is for an hour, a day or a year when things work out really well and we are happy with the result. The trick is to become consistent so it happens more frequently.

The biggest challenge I dealt with throughout my career was being dropped from the Australian Test Team. To be honest I don't think I handled it all that well first time around. Rather than looking at what I needed to improve on or to understand the reasons why it happened I was too concerned what everyone else thought. This is perhaps the biggest lesson I learned throughout my career.

Of course there were other periods after this in my career where I didn't perform as well as I would have liked but this never lasted for any length of time because I understood why it happened and how I could rectify. Success was always just around the corner.

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