Comments on: How Do You Relate to Failure? (Weekly Challenger 7/21/2008) http://manageyourmuse.com/themuse/weekly-challengers/how-do-you-relate-to-failure-weekly-challenger-7212008-112.html where The Muse blogs Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:49:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: TheMuse http://manageyourmuse.com/themuse/weekly-challengers/how-do-you-relate-to-failure-weekly-challenger-7212008-112.html#comment-268 TheMuse Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:54:18 +0000 http://manageyourmuse.com/themuse/weekly-challengers/how-do-you-relate-to-failure-weekly-challenger-7212008-112.html#comment-268 Health issues and job frustration certainly will test your resolve to see life through a positive lens. What I see in you, though, is an amazing resiliency and willingness to keep experimenting until you find what's right for you. So many people are willing to settle for what's there, even if it makes them unhappy. I applaud you for not accepting that. The failure isn't in you; it's in something external, something outside yourself that you tried that didn't work out. You will continue to experiment, and you will find your successes. And I want to be the first to hear about them! Health issues and job frustration certainly will test your resolve to see life through a positive lens. What I see in you, though, is an amazing resiliency and willingness to keep experimenting until you find what’s right for you.

So many people are willing to settle for what’s there, even if it makes them unhappy. I applaud you for not accepting that. The failure isn’t in you; it’s in something external, something outside yourself that you tried that didn’t work out. You will continue to experiment, and you will find your successes. And I want to be the first to hear about them!

]]> By: lyndall http://manageyourmuse.com/themuse/weekly-challengers/how-do-you-relate-to-failure-weekly-challenger-7212008-112.html#comment-261 lyndall Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:52:23 +0000 http://manageyourmuse.com/themuse/weekly-challengers/how-do-you-relate-to-failure-weekly-challenger-7212008-112.html#comment-261 For me I am currently facing the issue of feeling like I have failed - again. This job hasn't worked out. I had health issues right from the start that affected my concentration which meant my colleagues didn't trust my work - increasing my feeling of failure. This has been one of four jobs that didn't work out - three jobs only had one hour's work a day so I left, one had such a toxic atmosphere that it was hard to breathe working there. I'm leaving to do what I have skills in and am meant to do - be a secretary. In my current job I only type details in a basic database and into a basic Internet form. It's hard to see this job as an experiment that didn't work, even though I know the agency did a poor job of placing me. I'm working on not mentally beating myself up but to simply move on from thinking about my current job. However, I still feel a strong sense of "poor me". For me I am currently facing the issue of feeling like I have failed - again. This job hasn’t worked out. I had health issues right from the start that affected my concentration which meant my colleagues didn’t trust my work - increasing my feeling of failure.

This has been one of four jobs that didn’t work out - three jobs only had one hour’s work a day so I left, one had such a toxic atmosphere that it was hard to breathe working there.
I’m leaving to do what I have skills in and am meant to do - be a secretary. In my current job I only type details in a basic database and into a basic Internet form.

It’s hard to see this job as an experiment that didn’t work, even though I know the agency did a poor job of placing me. I’m working on not mentally beating myself up but to simply move on from thinking about my current job. However, I still feel a strong sense of “poor me”.

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