Pivot with Jenny Blake

297: How to Create a Failure Resume

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What’s your favorite kind of failure? The question isn’t if you’ll fail or get rejected, but when. So don’t let it stop you from taking action or making decisions. Today I’m sharing more on a favorite practice that I’ve heard others espouse: creating a failure resume.  


🌟3 Key Takeaways:

  • Being afraid is fine. Ask, “Is it enough to stop you?” If the answer is yes, what can you do to sidestep that issue or shift direction?
  • How do you define failure? Are you thinking about quantitative outcomes like financials or metrics, or is your definition more qualitative?
  • Remember to consider the third side of the coin: the neutral middle where you can reflect, learn, and adapt.

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    ✅Next Action: Compile your failure resume. List everything that you personally consider a failure, including a few rejections large and small. While you’re doing so, consider what the outcomes of those failures were: What did you learn? Who did you meet? What next action did it inspire?


    📘Books Mentioned:

    • Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business 
    • Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
    • Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want
    • Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh
    • The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel Pink


      🔗Resources Mentioned: 

      • Jenny’s private BFF Community for Heart-Based Business owners
      • Submit your best do’s and don’ts by leaving Jenny a voicemail 
      • Share this episode with a fellow Pivoter
      • Articles: Create a Failure Resume, Do You Keep a Failure Resume?, and Wearing Your Failures on Your Sleeve
      • TheFailCon.com
      • Videos: The Gambler, Three Sides of the Coin
      • Podcast: FLOPS: A Podcast About Failure


        • 🎧Related Podcast Episodes: 

        • 296: Top 3 Do’s and Dont’s When Leaving a Corporate Job
        • 118: Union Theological Seminary—Reflections on My First Month of Grad School
        • 123: Peeking Out from the Plateau — My Latest Pivots (and Why Plateaus Actually Signal Progress!)
        • 60: How Emotionally Agile Are You? Strategies for Setbacks with Susan David
        • 127: Live from the Vulnerability Hangover! Launching @LifeOfALebaneseArtist with Michael Karsouny
        • JB on SPARKED with Jonathan Fields
        • 112: My 3 Biggest Business Regrets
        • 114: “Failure is the Frame, Not the Picture”
        • 019: Most Valuable Activities with Dave Crenshaw

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