share your fail story and make peace with failure
My story starts with a new job and ends with myself crawling in the mud. The only thing I didn’t know when I was in my most desperate self-loathing phase, was that flowers grow in the mud – that the mud is the vital element which nourishes them and the stench and the dirt provide …
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A few years ago I met a wonderful person. He was just going through a rough divorce, and I was there when he needed a helping hand. As time passed by, we started dating and eventually, living together. Our relationship began with sadness and baggage from the past but soon turned into something beautiful and …
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Hi! I want to share with you a failure story. As many others, it could have been a success story but destiny (together with some unlucky decisions) move it to the dark side of the balance. I’m not ashamed at all and much less regretful of having tried. In 2009, me and some friends were …
To this point I actually haven’t experienced any professional failures. Sure, I made mistakes and some wrong decisions at my jobs, but they all were really minor so they never led to real professional failure. Maybe it’s because of my cautiousness, maybe it’s just luck and my professional failure is still waiting for me somewhere …
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I bet that every smoker has a few failed attempts at trying to quit smoking. I definitely do. I’m smoking for 16 years. This is crazy, this is a half of my life. 😊 I remember that I started in high school just because I wanted to be cool as the rest of my school …
Let me tell you a story about my life changing business failure. I have been working in Energy business most of my life and getting the job well done. Then, one day, came along this unique and appealing opportunity to get involved in a multimillion construction project. Of course, I grabbed the chance with both …
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Some of you would feel sorry for me. Others would say: ˝So, what?!? It was your decision, nobody forced those drugs down your throat. ˝ They would be right. It was me who brought all that misery upon myself. No one else to blame but me. I know it sounds like I´m drowning in the …
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Lately, I´ve been hearing a lot of sad family stories. Brothers not getting along, parents that have very few paternal and maternal skills, kids, way past their teenage years that rebel against their parents and grandparents just for the sake of it. Stories of physical and emotional violence, manipulation and abuse. And what I keep …