1) As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I walk dogs as a side job. I usually schedule walks through an app that has a calendar and will send me alerts when I have a dog to walk that day. One of my clients, though, didn't want to use the app and preferred to just text me. This was fine by me because it meant I got to be paid in cash. He always texts me at the beginning of the week to schedule which days I would come over to walk his dog. Well, there was one day that I was walking a couple of dogs, had classes, and had a shift for my other job. It was quite a hectic day and I didn't realize I was supposed to walk this guys dog until he called me 3 hours after the time he scheduled and asked if I had been over there. I felt terrible and apologized profusely to my client and luckily he wasn't too worried about it.
2) I learned to always put my dog walks into my calendar, as well as to wake up everyday and immediately check my calendar to see what I have going on that day. It also taught me that I am my biggest critic so I will always be harder on myself than others are. I thought that this guy would never trust me to walk his dog again, but he understood that mistakes happen and I am still walking his dog for him to this day.
3) I take failure hard but I have learned how to move on and not dwell on it. I've played softball for the past 10 years or so of my life and it has taught me so much about failure. In a game like softball or baseball, you fail a lot. For example a .500 batting average is amazing and that only means you are getting a hit 50% of the time. That means you are failing the other 50% of the time. This has taught me that it's ok to fail sometimes - everybody does - and you just have to learn from it and keep trying to better yourself.
2) I learned to always put my dog walks into my calendar, as well as to wake up everyday and immediately check my calendar to see what I have going on that day. It also taught me that I am my biggest critic so I will always be harder on myself than others are. I thought that this guy would never trust me to walk his dog again, but he understood that mistakes happen and I am still walking his dog for him to this day.
3) I take failure hard but I have learned how to move on and not dwell on it. I've played softball for the past 10 years or so of my life and it has taught me so much about failure. In a game like softball or baseball, you fail a lot. For example a .500 batting average is amazing and that only means you are getting a hit 50% of the time. That means you are failing the other 50% of the time. This has taught me that it's ok to fail sometimes - everybody does - and you just have to learn from it and keep trying to better yourself.
Leah,
ReplyDeleteWow I think that its great that you have been able to learn to not dwell on the past and get over failure. As you said, we can be the biggest critics of ourselves, and that is the exact situation I have. Furthermore, I had not realized how sports can give you this life skill. I was never in any sports growing up, but now I wish I had been just to learn this skill.
Hello Leah,
ReplyDeleteI am the same as you in that I also take failure very hard. It's funny that you mentioned how softball taught you a lot about failure. Just this morning I was watching an interview with Tim Tebow who was saying the same thing about baseball. Seems like a wonderful sport for people to play.