If you didn't know, I failed my last exam of trying to become a Chartered Accountant. Obviously, I am very disappointed, but I am also very relieved to know what to expect in the next year. It's going to be a bitch to study again, but this is only going to make me hungrier to pass this time around. I'm not going to make excuses for why I didn't pass, but I know that I will be ready the next time.
In a previous post, I may have sounded a little discouraged about the UFE process. (I guess with good reason.) The point of the post was to highlight the fact that I just really wanted some answers. I wanted to be done. I didn't want to deal with waiting anymore.
So, why the optimism for the next go round?
I have a couple of reasons. First, some of the smartest people at my firm have failed this exam. For people that never write this thing, it's not a test of memory or intelligence. Anyways, I was in the office the other day and I received some very comforting messages from my co-workers. If they will believe in me, I can certainly believe in me.
That brings me to my next point.
I have failed things before. I may underestimate some things the first time and get burned. Take baseball for example. I like to think that I am a natural athlete. I always did well in sports growing up. I thought that I could play baseball with middle-aged men that may have been playing a few years. In my first year of ball, I was a lowsy baseball player. I don't recall one extra-base hit. That is terrible. This year, although not exactly where I want to be, I had hit a huge and timely triple in the final game of the playoffs. I ended up being the winning run. Although one hit does not make a season, I had actually hit more extra base hits than singles. I definetely came back with a little bit of extra game.
Curling offers another example of failure. I had been a skip for junior provincial playdowns. In one year, we had made it to the finals of our zone and we gave up 5 points in the first end. We had prepared so much and came away with so little. We could not close the gap. Two years later, we make it to the finals again. This time, we had given up 5 points in the first end again. This time we were able to come back and win the game because we had learned something. Failure is an opportunity to learn more. We learned that failure happens, but it doesn't have to happen twice if you don't want it to. You just need to learn something from it.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
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