If you have not suffered disappointment in your home business, then you have not been in business very long—it is inevitable that things will go awry or you will put a bunch of energy into something in your business that just does not work out. We cannot avoid disappointment, but we can decide how much we will let it affect us and we can learn how to take the experience for what it is and move on…
I am not advocating that we try to ignore or overlook those disappointments that come our way in our home businesses—I really do think there are grand lessons and important things that can come of them. We might find that while one effort did not work out well, we discovered something else along the way that did. Other times, the disappointment might be so acute that we cannot at first see anything positive that can come from it. I have discovered that the lessons and positives are often not revealed at first—or if they are, I am too crabby, hurt, and exhausted to see them. It is only over time that I can look back and the positive outcome is revealed to me. It is only after I process the disappointment and move on that I can grasp what a significant lesson it is.
So, how can we move on from a business disappointment? Take stock, focus on what needs to be done in the moment or the day, and put energy into what it going well. By taking our energy and focus AWAY from the failure and how badly we are feeling about it, and putting that focus into other areas of the business we are taking part in the philosophy that what you feed, grows. Wallowing in feeling badly and disappointed will only make us feel worse. Step away, focus on other things, and after the sting of the disappointment has healed, we can then go back and look over the situation to see what went wrong and what we can learn from it.