Celebrate Failure
At the W.A.C.E. conference that I attended this past week, we heard from Barry Moltz, author of Bounce!: Failure, Resiliency, and Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success. He talked about the necessity of working through your failures to find your successes. It was an excellent speech and I highly recommend retaining Barry for your next conference.
At one point, Barry asked if anyone in the audience had a failure they wished to air out so they could put it behind them.
A very brave friend of mine went up in front of hundreds of his colleagues to share that he had almost been fired over the financials of his chamber. This “failure” had become a lodestone around his neck that he couldn’t shake. I hope and expect that by airing out this “failure”, and realizing that nobody has uninterrupted successes, that this fine fellow has put this behind him.
Through his challenge, he gained wisdom that he could never have had without this event. His chamber also gained because they now have a wiser employee. As others have said,
Failure is an event, not a person.
The person with no failures also has no successes.
Celebrate your failures just as you do your successes,
perhaps even more so.
In light of what I have written above, here is a video that reinforces the concept.
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Barry Moltz
7 Feb, 2010
yes, the person who stood up was brave- I just hope he remembers all of us shouting his name in support!
dave
7 Feb, 2010
Won’t ever forget it!