In case you haven’t noticed, life in the real world is a series of ups and downs. Life in a veterinary practice is a microcosm of the world around us. It too, has a series of good days and others we would just as soon forget. Most of us handle the good days with grace and thankfulness. The real test is how we react on the really bad days.
Source: Laurie Joyce, LinkedIn, June 7, 2016.
My biggest lesson was to learn not to take the setback personally. If I wasn’t wanted, it wasn’t necessarily because I was incompetent or incapable of doing the job anymore, it was simply because someone else had made a decision that I didn’t agree with. The only thing to do then was pick myself up and move on.
INSIGHTS: Too often we allow our job, our relationships or our social life define us a person. We would do well to see that is the performance on the job, the interactions with another human being or the anti-social behavior that is the problem. So, focus on the problem, not the person and get up to try again.