The dreaded F Word: failure. Who wants failure? Despite what many self-help gurus write about bouncing back from failure, it is a painful experience. When your results do not match your expectations, it is natural to feel lousy and disappointed.
My triathlon buddy, Hui Koon reported on his recent Challenge Cairns 2011. Like I (at IM Lanzarote) he, too, had a tough day at the office. He gives a blow-by-blow account of his racing experience and disappointment at not meeting his target. You did very well, Bro! Live to recover and race another day!
Being resilient is about landing softly and not hard. You create a cushion to your fall, so that you recover quickly to achieve your goals later. Patience is part of the equation, so bask in the entire process. Sometimes, we have to take two steps back so that we can advance three steps. We rarely need to start from scratch. That is where base training, an analogy for experience and wisdom comes in. What happens between discovering failure and attaining that much appreciated sense of success matter! Refine after you define. Define who you are in different ways.
When there’s a will, there’s another way to your success. Forward and onwards!
My triathlon buddy, Hui Koon reported on his recent Challenge Cairns 2011. Like I (at IM Lanzarote) he, too, had a tough day at the office. He gives a blow-by-blow account of his racing experience and disappointment at not meeting his target. You did very well, Bro! Live to recover and race another day!
Being resilient is about landing softly and not hard. You create a cushion to your fall, so that you recover quickly to achieve your goals later. Patience is part of the equation, so bask in the entire process. Sometimes, we have to take two steps back so that we can advance three steps. We rarely need to start from scratch. That is where base training, an analogy for experience and wisdom comes in. What happens between discovering failure and attaining that much appreciated sense of success matter! Refine after you define. Define who you are in different ways.
When there’s a will, there’s another way to your success. Forward and onwards!
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Am now overseas; my second trip in a fortnight. I will teach for the next two days, and face professional salespeople who are very familiar about their industry and discipline. What I will offer will be insights to the total experience of selling, a more exquisite process and assisting models for engineering a pleasant experience for both seller and buyer. The hotel I am staying in has the best audio-visual assistance: a flat-screen television which you can plug-and-play your notebook, with accompanying DVD player and speakers for a great presentation experience.
Bloody luxury, I say, and I am learning to savour it; more trips to follow and more hotels to review…
