Let’s talk about failure…

Good afternoon everyone,

I hope that you’re all having a fantastic start to the weekend!

Failure, it’s a topic that I’ve covered a few times before on the page, but I haven’t looked at it too much lately. I’ve been reflecting quite a bit on what failure means to me lately, and I thought that I would do a little blog on the subject as I go along 🙂

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When I was growing up, I always used to pride myself on achieving high grades throughout my schooldays, but when I reached college, things seemed to have changed rather drastically. I was used to getting A’s & A*’s, however, in college, I kept on coming out with C’s, D’s & E’s. While these aren’t necessarily bad grades, at the time, I did feel like a bit of a failure.

It took me a long time, but I finally realised that I needed to shift my mindset…

When I was in college, I:

👉 Faced the most terrifying battle with my Mental Health

👉 Started to lose my grandmother to Alzheimer’s

👉 Survived a near-fatal operation

I wasn’t failing, I was doing my best in the horrible circumstances that I was in at the time 😁🙌🙌

As Alan Donegan from the Rebel Business School taught me, on a business course back in June 2018 – “Failure is only a curve on the road to success” 🌻🌴🌻

My college years taught me so much, and although I didn’t do the best grades-wise, I’m still very proud of them. All of the successes & failures that I have had in life have helped shape me into the person that I am to this day, and I am sure that they will continue to do that for the person that I am going to become going forward. 🕺🏼💃🕺🏼

Would I change the failures if I could? I honestly would say no, as they have made me the James Connor Sweeney that I am today.