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E
XPERIENCE
12: U
SING
F
AILURE
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EARNING
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EARN
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ECOMING
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ELF
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ROWER
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HALLENGE
In everyone’s life there are areas in which we have tried, failed, and quit. These are the areas that we hide
from, and every time that something comes up that puts us into a similar situation, it frightens us, and we
do the best we can to avoid it. Today is the day that you will confront your greatest area of avoidance.
T
OOLS
/W
ORKSHEETS
Personal Development Worksheet
My Life Vision worksheet
P
REPARATION
1. Inventory areas in which you feel that you have personally failed and as a result have tried to avoid
ever being presented with the same type of challenge.
2. Prioritize this list as to the most significant and meaningful issues and their value to your personal
vision.
3. Select one of the top three that you are going to commit to change over the rest of this term and the
next term.
P
ROBLEMS
TO
S
OLVE
Using the
Personal Development Worksheet
, develop a plan for self-growth. Finalize the plan within a
week and start to put the plan into action.
You will include an updated plan and progress towards the goal in your Self-Growth Paper (a blank
Personal Development Assessment worksheet
is available for that purpose in Experience 15).
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Y
L
IFE
V
ISION
Based on the reading for this experience, complete the
My Life Vision worksheet
. (Note that this one is
a little bit different and offers you prompts for your writing.)