Celebrating Failure

Celebrating Failure

1.       During this semester, I have been failing at meeting my academic goals for ACG2021. At the beginning, I told myself that I was going to finish out the semester with a B in the class; however, it is looking more like I may receive a C in the class even after a lot of hard work. It is something that I really struggle to understand and have had to work at every day.

2.       I have learned from this challenge that I am not always going to be great at everything. Though accounting might be hard for me, I am really good at other things. I have to look at it knowing that doing my best sometimes just has to be enough. Otherwise, I’ll continually drive myself crazy trying to be the best at everything.

3.       Failure is really hard. It’s embarrassing. I have never been good at accepting failure because I am very determined and do not like to give up. I also don’t ever like to admit that I need to change something. At times, I would rather change the subject and avoid acting like I did anything wrong to begin with. Failure usually makes me shut down emotionally, but I have been working on trying to be angry instead of emotional and then use that anger to make a change. This class has taught me that it is necessary to be able to move on from failures and start working on the next thing!