Sasha Dispenses Advice

[the_fantastic_ms_fox]

                The hardest worthwhile things:

                        3rd        changing your life

                        2nd       being yourself

                        1st        trying the above, failing, then getting up and trying again

Comments

[rilwyn.livejournal.com]

Oh you are so right! Picking myself up and trying again after failing is REALLY hard.

But so worthwhile. And necessary.

It happens, again and again for me, because I am not satisfied with the way I am, and I take risks and make changes. The last really big fall was in late October 2005. I'm about due for another one. I hope it will be reasonably gentle. I didn't make probation mostly because I didn't work the office politics correctly. I am now better at office politics. A good thing, since I work in an office.

The big problem I have is that when this happens, somebody makes the mistake of writing me off because of my error, not imagining that someone with the big blindspots I have in some areas could learn a different way, and I don't realize it until there's that big cold-shouldery feeling the next time I talk to them.