Celebrate your failures.
We celebrate our wins and successes all the time.
And we often tuck away our failures in the corner and do our best not to visit them all that often.
We do this because it usually brings up emotions we don't particularly like.
But celebrating your failures is an important aspect in any type of growth and development.
Taking time to feel sadness, frustration, anger, or whatever emotions that come with the failure is good and needed. And it is an important aspect in taking accountability for the failure.
But after some time, celebrating that failure can help in the healing process and allow for moving forward.
There was a time where I was not considered for an internal position that I had my eye on for a while.
It was a failure on my end, as I could have done more to have better positioned myself to be considered for the particular role.
I was quite sad, mad, frustrated, and even felt a little hopeless for a couple of months after what I had at the time deemed "my perfect work future."
I wish I would have been faster to reflect on what I learned from the situation.
I wish I would have been faster to think deeper about what new opportunities and possibilities this failure allowed for my future.
Once you have reflected on what you’ve learned and the new possibilities, I encourage you to go celebrate in whatever way you like to celebrate.
For me - I wish I would picked up my best friend, grabbed a few beers and said "let's celebrate."
I believe the actual act of celebrating the failure after the reflection process allows you to move forward at a much quicker rate.
It allows correlation to positive thoughts versus only negative thoughts in the future whenever the failure inevitably crosses your mind.
It allows you to maybe shake your head and smile when you think of the failure, rather than bottle it up.
We all fail at times in our life. But not everyone celebrates their failures.
Week 3 of 52
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