Sunday, April 10, 2016

Celebrating Failure

  In this week's blog post I will write about a time this semester where I failed. At the end of fall semester I received a admission to a spring program at UF called Retail You. Retail You is a program hosted by the Miller Retailing Center under Warrington College of Business. Every Friday the selected few must attend an 8:30 to 10 am seminar on internships for the rest of the semester. I was really interested in this program because I believed it could sharpen my skills and better help me apply for an internship next summer. However, things started turning downhill. I started attending Retail You late and then I started missing sessions all together. I wanted to be in the program but I just couldn't get up on Friday mornings and push myself to go. I wasn't taking the program seriously. During this same time I was going through some personal issues of my own. One of my family members passed away which took a toll on my every day normal behavior. This tragedy made it very hard to focus on my school work and Retail You. 
  Eventually, I was called in by the director of the program for a one on one meeting to talk about my absences. The director barely muttered a few sentences before I started crying. I was very grateful that the director of the program was so understanding. She brought out a box of tissues from under her desk and let me cry for as long as I needed. After a long talk she gave me a second chance to get my act together and begin attending Retail You sessions. A few weeks later I emailed her saying I would no longer be participating in the program. At that point I began to see Retail You as a failure. 
  This failure, like all others, took a toll on me. In was disappointed in myself that I could't get my act together and participated in the program. However I slowly started fixing my resume and applying for other opportunities around campus.
  I believe failure is a way the world makes us realize we are not perfect. I believe failure is a reminder that we are human and making mistakes is part of life. Failure is hard to accept. My failure through Retail You as made me want to work hard in other programs and involve myself to develop my skills and qualifications. I feel that this class has made me handle risk taking better than I could before. 
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  1. UnknownApril 13, 2016 at 7:32 PM

    Andrea,

    Sorry to here about your lose. It's good to see that you realized there is nothing wrong with failure and that you changed it around to something positive, by going out with a positive attitude to fix your resume. I always try to keep the mindset that you are going to fail a lot more then you are going to succeed in life, especially since I work in a bank that is driven by sales.
    Good luck and check out my post @ http://entwill3003.blogspot.com/2016/04/celabrating-failure.html

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  2. Nika Was HereApril 14, 2016 at 12:20 PM

    Hey, Andi. I'm so sorry for your loss. It's always hard to lose a family member. Like William said, it's good that you took something positive out of your Retail You experience. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and shortcomings and try to better yourself as a result of them you never truly "fail." Good luck on your future endeavors and we need to catch up soon! Here is the link to my post if you would like to check it out: http://nika-uf-ent3003.blogspot.com/2016/04/celebrating-failure.html

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