5.  Some failures are a result of something outside of your control.  Best laid plans and all that…The airport you’re supposed to be flying out of is socked in for 24 hours and you miss your son’s dance recital. Your mother falls and breaks a hip. Since you are the only child (or the only responsible child), you miss a couple of key deadlines because you need (and want) to be taking care of your mother’s matters.   You can feel like a failure – or recognize that you aren’t.  Sometimes life has a way of getting in the way of ‘success.’  Focus on the areas that are within your control.  Manage those ‘failures.’  All of these “failures” were but a comma in the flow of your life…not a period.  Pause and move on.
In your life, you have many opportunities for success and failure.  If you would like additional tips, tools, and techniques that you can use to support your successes, then access one or both of the following free resource websites:

**Top Ten Productivity Tips (http://www.TopTenProductivityTips.com)

**Articles (http://www.ArticlesbyMeggin.com)

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1. Some failures are huge disappointments.  Generally, if your marriage “fails,” you feel some disappointment. You went into the relationship with some sense of expectation; when it doesn’t work out the way you were hoping and planning, then it’s incredibly disappointing.  Not earning tenure at your university MAY be a huge disappointment or it may be the best thing that every happened to you because you find another position at a different university – and you thrive there.   

Be sure to continue with tomorrow’s post and learn more about ways to view failure – and between now and then, you may want to access one of these tools (free): 

**Top Ten Productivity Tips (http://www.TopTenProductivityTips.com)

**Articles for Professors (http://www.ArticlesforProfessors.com)

(c) 2009 by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D., “The Ph.D. of Productivity”(tm). Through her company, Emphasis on Excellence, Inc., Meggin McIntosh changes what people know, feel, dream, and do. Sound interesting? It is!

“Don’t worry about *the* world; worry about *your* world.”

This is not to say that we shouldn’t be concerned about the globe and/or the global issues that face all of us.  It is to say that we need to focus on, ‘worry about,’ be concerned with those things that are within our realm of influence.

One of the special events for Life of E’s members is “Being and Staying Positive in a Freaked Out World.”  It will be on Wednesday, December 17th and will be accessible to E’s either live, or later as a download.

Remember, “Don’t worry about *the* world; worry about *your* world.”

It might be worth taking a look.  We all have to focus on what we can control…not on what we can’t.  There’s PLENTY that we can’t and that’s what is freaking us out.  Focus on what you can…it may have a calming influence.  It has for me.