"Celebrating Failure"

1)   Tell us about a time this past semester that you failed -- whether in this class, or outside of this class. Don't spare any details! It'd be even better if there was something you tried several times this semester, and failed each time. 

For the last few years I have been working on opening a luxury hair boutique. It seems like every time I try to do it, something with my money happens and I can’t focus on the business because I have regular bills I have to pay. This time I am not going to put it off. I have gone to cosmetology school this year and I refuse to not use it! I think that me accomplishing this milestone has made me more dedicated to accomplish what I need to accomplish

2)   Tell us what you learned from it.  

I have learned from this to never give up and change your plan a million times if you need to, just don’t change the goal.

3)   Reflect, in general, on what you think about failure. Failure is hard, isn't it? It's embarrassing, sure, but it also means that we have to change something about ourselves. Talk about how you handle failure (emotionally, behaviorally). Finally, talk about how this class has changed your perspective on failure -- are you more likely to take a risk now than you were four months ago? 

Like everyone failure does not feel good. I hate to fail because I try so hard to succeed. I will say that when something fails for me I can’t wait until the entire plan fails so I can start a new one. I hate wasting time on something that didn’t work! I hate going over it and over it in my mind. I simply want to get the things that don’t work out of the way so that I can move on to the things that do work! When I fail I something I IMMEDIATELY start to think of my next plan of action. I don’t dwell on it, it makes me depressed. Instead I direct my attention to what needs to be done. I don’t think this class has helped me look at failure differently, directly. I do believe that indirectly having to write about it has helped me to understand failure more. I believe that my writing about how I don’t give us has given me motivation to constantly keep going!