Celebrating Failure
Without failures, there is no progress!
I have failed so many times during last few months in business and in education. Of course when you fail you learn a lot, sometimes even more than when you succeed. Failures are essential on the way to success, and there are a lot of entrepreneur who succeed and fail after and then climb back again and then fall after even deeper, and so forth again and again... it's an ups and downs, and it's a matter of person's willingness, desire, and capability whether he wants to stop it and maybe become more passive or quit or continue further.. Failures most of the time, in my case, involves a lot of different emotion, sadness, displeasure, frustration, sometimes fear and anger and even enjoyment or happiness.. However they temper me every time I fail. They may not be strongly expressed externally, but felt internally. Now I feel like I'm willing to take more risk than I used to, again, taking reasonable risk.. I believe there is no better time to act than now... even if your action is to wait or not to act. hah.
I was working on developing project as a managing partner, and I had every piece together as far as financing, engineers, environmental consultant, rezone attorney and etc, I was thinking it's going to work well and reproduction can be started end of this year. However, one thing that we didn't expect is recession coming along with pandemic. It left a lot of people without their earning, especially me because the biggest portion of my earning supposed to be a profit from the deal. I was no longer working hourly, I'm working per project, per perspective. Now I have to refocus my business into foreclosures and surpluses or something else. I also have several buildable vacant lots in Florida that I was going to sell but with this market I would be happy if I can just get my money back without loosing it. I'm not giving up and still fighting, still having feeling that I can make it.
As far as education, I failed that I didn't spend enough time for it. I had a lot going on both personal and business sides, cherry on a pie was that I got strong flu and virus in January and February that made me close to disabled for almost a month. I learned that I need to estimate and analyze my risks better - expect the best but prepared for the worst. I learned that it is never too good to bite off more than you can chew. I learned that I need to really think over everything before choosing a class, and how much time it will require.
Failure is not the end of the world. It may be embarrassing, but things could always be worse. After being in this class, my perspective has changed in the last few months. I learned failure is inevitable. It is bound to happen and it is not necessarily a bad thing. A lot of positives can come out of failure, giving you new perspectives on life.
I have failed so many times during last few months in business and in education. Of course when you fail you learn a lot, sometimes even more than when you succeed. Failures are essential on the way to success, and there are a lot of entrepreneur who succeed and fail after and then climb back again and then fall after even deeper, and so forth again and again... it's an ups and downs, and it's a matter of person's willingness, desire, and capability whether he wants to stop it and maybe become more passive or quit or continue further.. Failures most of the time, in my case, involves a lot of different emotion, sadness, displeasure, frustration, sometimes fear and anger and even enjoyment or happiness.. However they temper me every time I fail. They may not be strongly expressed externally, but felt internally. Now I feel like I'm willing to take more risk than I used to, again, taking reasonable risk.. I believe there is no better time to act than now... even if your action is to wait or not to act. hah.
I was working on developing project as a managing partner, and I had every piece together as far as financing, engineers, environmental consultant, rezone attorney and etc, I was thinking it's going to work well and reproduction can be started end of this year. However, one thing that we didn't expect is recession coming along with pandemic. It left a lot of people without their earning, especially me because the biggest portion of my earning supposed to be a profit from the deal. I was no longer working hourly, I'm working per project, per perspective. Now I have to refocus my business into foreclosures and surpluses or something else. I also have several buildable vacant lots in Florida that I was going to sell but with this market I would be happy if I can just get my money back without loosing it. I'm not giving up and still fighting, still having feeling that I can make it.
As far as education, I failed that I didn't spend enough time for it. I had a lot going on both personal and business sides, cherry on a pie was that I got strong flu and virus in January and February that made me close to disabled for almost a month. I learned that I need to estimate and analyze my risks better - expect the best but prepared for the worst. I learned that it is never too good to bite off more than you can chew. I learned that I need to really think over everything before choosing a class, and how much time it will require.
Failure is not the end of the world. It may be embarrassing, but things could always be worse. After being in this class, my perspective has changed in the last few months. I learned failure is inevitable. It is bound to happen and it is not necessarily a bad thing. A lot of positives can come out of failure, giving you new perspectives on life.
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