Objective: To embrace the fear of failure as a learning experience, turning setbacks into opportunities for growth, resilience, and continuous improvement.
VP Article: Conquering The Fear Of Failing
INSTRUCTIONS: BEFORE STARTING THE ACTIVITY, MAKE SURE TO READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM.
Use Loom to record yourself while reading the article aloud. You may split the reading part into as many recordings as necessary. After reading, think about a time in your career as a virtual assistant when you faced failure—perhaps you missed a deadline or misunderstood an instruction. Reflect on how you handled the situation. Did you take responsibility, communicate openly, or ask for feedback? Describe the specific actions you took to regain the client’s trust and what steps you implemented to improve. In your Virtual Professionals notebook, write a short summary of your experience, how you overcame it, and how it helped you become stronger, resilient, and more knowledgeable today. Your output must contain a minimum of 200 words.
Do not use ChatGPT or any AI tools to generate your output. However, you may use ChatGPT to check the grammar.
Important Note: As much as possible, do this activity when you are calm, not rushed, and when your mind is clear and relaxed. Avoid doing it during busy or stressful moments to fully benefit from the experience.
How To Send:
Using your VP Gmail, add the SUBJECT line: Activity 40: Fearless Growth | VP Screen Name, and take a photo/s of your output and change the photo’s file name according to the sequence of the pages in your Virtual Professionals notebook. For example: Activity 40 (1), Activity 40 (2). Send it to info.virtualprofessionals@gmail.com and CC michelle.virtualprofessionals@gmail.com along with the Loom recording link/s.
Before sending the Loom recording, make sure to update the title of your recording. The file name should match the subject line of your email. If you have multiple recordings, include a number to indicate the sequence.
Example:
- Activity 40: Fearless Growth | VP Screen Name (1)
- Activity 40: Fearless Growth | VP Screen Name (2)
Goals: Viewing failure as a valuable learning experience allows us to extract important lessons from mistakes, helping us grow stronger and more capable. Instead of seeing failure as an end, we begin to see it as a stepping stone towards improvement and future success.
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