12/09/2021
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On Overcoming Setbacks by contributor, Mary!
"We all had dreams of who we wanted to be when we grew up. I had many, including being a teacher. But life just didn’t work out, and I suddenly found myself unable to do what I had always imagined. It felt like a huge failure I would never overcome. I felt that my boat had completely capsized.
But I did overcome it. In the aftermath, I took a step back to take time to do other things, and doors kept opening. I am now in a job I never imagined for myself, but that I love. And I discovered that my identity and self-worth are not held in “being a teacher”, and that this failure was only a setback along my way.
Sometimes I notice a fear of failure, a fear of capsizing, creeping in when I make mistakes at work. But now I have an arsenal of experience behind me, and I force myself to take small risks until I regain my ground. Taking these small risks helps me overcome my mistakes and trains me to take even bigger risks by becoming less afraid of falling. After all, what’s the worst that can happen?
I know that, many times, my boat may be off kilter. Perhaps I will be heading in the wrong direction. Perhaps I will be completely lost. Perhaps I won’t be able to see anything in front of me. Perhaps I’ll be capsized again. But, as a character in the Maisie Dobbs series proclaims, “time is a great editor”, and I hope and trust that, as long as I keep getting back up, keep moving, eventually my boat will straighten itself out and I will end up where I am meant to be."
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