Try, Try and Try Again
Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2019 9:27 pm
Failure is an unfortunate part of life. No matter how talented you are at something or how hard you work, chances are that you'll experience it to some degree in everything you attempt. Learning to deal with it and move past it is crucial in life.
It's something I have to wrestle with every November as I try to encourage people over the finish line for National Novel Writing Month. I can cheer on and congratulate the people who do well but the truly crucial bit is to console the people who don't quite achieve their goal. The advice I always give them is to treat every word they wrote as a small victory: it's progress they didn't have before and they have no idea where those words might take them in future.
I'm not very good at following my own advice. I'm still very prone to taking failure too much to heart. So it got me wondering, do any of you have tips for how to process and move forward from a setback?
It's something I have to wrestle with every November as I try to encourage people over the finish line for National Novel Writing Month. I can cheer on and congratulate the people who do well but the truly crucial bit is to console the people who don't quite achieve their goal. The advice I always give them is to treat every word they wrote as a small victory: it's progress they didn't have before and they have no idea where those words might take them in future.
I'm not very good at following my own advice. I'm still very prone to taking failure too much to heart. So it got me wondering, do any of you have tips for how to process and move forward from a setback?