26A – Celebrating Failure -

1. One example of me failing this semester was in regards to me taking on too much at once. As a student, I have educational and professional goals I'm working to attain, but also do need to work in order to help pay for rent and groceries at the same time. In that regard, my budget required me to work a certain amount of hours each week, something which quickly became tedious due to the copious schedule of classes and extracurricular involvement I'm taking this semester. While I initially assumed that I would be successful in this endeavor, what happened instead was the opposite, as dozens of hours left me tired and exhausted, and I found my grades slipping, stressing me out immensely, and putting me in danger of failing my classes.
2. Having thought about this, I feel that I learned how everyone has limits, and personal issues, combined with school and work is a load that needs to be learned to be balanced, as these things each require time and energy in order to be resolved, and can quickly overwhelm a person, with signs such as one failing to care for themselves being a quick indicator of where things stand in such situations.
3. I feel that I personally don't handle failure well, dwelling on it a fair amount. However, the one thing I do positively is analyze how I could have done better to avoid failing, which is what I feel the best mentality is to have when it comes to dealing with such things. Having taken this class, I feel that the greatest way to minimize regret when it comes to failure is to commit 100% to an effort, as one can feel a lot less bad about failing if they committed everything, and can learn about how to succeed on another attempt of completing a task.