60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Wednesday: How Do We Turn a Perceived Failure Into Opportunity?

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Hello to you listening in Desert Hot Springs, California ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. Recently a friend told me how she felt like a failure because the job she had she didn’t want and the job she wanted she didn’t get. Now what? What if we choose to look at the lost job opportunity as an experiment that didn’t produce the expected results. Does that mean it failed? No. What if we look at the result as information pointing you in a better direction. Dr. Jonas Salk once said, “ There is no such thing as a failed experiment, because learning what doesn't work is a necessary step to learning what does .” Or, as the famous American jazz musician Louis Armstrong said, “ It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play .” Practical Tip : Think of a time when you believed you had failed but with a little persistence turned the result into an unexpected opportunity. How did you do it? I believe it’s because you’ve got what it takes to experiment!