Moving On: A Failed Commitment, A Closure, Then to Starting on A Clean Slate


It's one of those disappointing failures some of us may have experienced this past year that haunts us back even right into the last few hours of the year. I committed to support and work on a business proposal that a friend offered me practically on a silver platter. I was just so eager and was wondering why such a good offer came to me. She offered the details and we agreed we would work together. But I failed to meet up the expectations. I simply was negligent. I'm just sorry such an opportunity to build another business together with a friend went bonkers.

But the good news is that she was more than civil not to take it against me by blaming me for anything. Nothing confrontation nor anything histrionic of an episode ensued. I just simply failed; I just didn't deliver. I was simply not communicating as my writing workload overflowed. I can always explain just to relieve me of the mental load, if somebody would care to ask. And I've learned in the process. It pays:
1) to be upfront with what I feel and why I'm failing.
2) not to wait for the other party to save my face.
3) to keep and maintain working relationships (who knows; there maybe other opportunities in the offing next time).
4) to give a respectable form of closure to any engagement I've committed myself to - it's the right thing to do, actually.

I'm just grateful I was treated with so much respect. And for that, I draw the courage to move on. It's indeed great to have friends, who accept me despite of my failures.

Praise God!

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