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Stories and advice pertaining to losing your job, chasing success, defining success for yourself, dealing with failure, and overcoming the fear of failure.

Losing your job

5 Amazing Blessings from Being Fired

When You’ve Lost Your Job: How to Start Moving Forward

Lost Your Job? Here Are 4 Things That Might Help

Losing Your Job Doesn’t Have to Mean Losing Yourself

I Got Fired for Struggling with Depression, and It’s Not Okay

Coping with the Grief of a Layoff: 5 Tips If You’re Looking for a Job

If you're chasing success

How to Stop Measuring Your Worth in Achievements

Why I Don’t Need Success and Validation to Be Happy

Why We Need to Stop Chasing Success and Start Enjoying the Little Things in Life

Why I’m Choosing to Be Happy Now, Not When I Feel Like a Success

No, You Don’t Have to Work Harder: The Truth About Finding Success

Defining success for yourself

What Really Makes Us Feel Successful

It’s Not All About Money: 5 Ways to Redefine Success

My Ordinary Checklist for a Highly Successful Life

What If Success Was Measured by How Well You’ve Loved?

40 Amazing Everyday Successes That Are Worth Celebrating

How to Be Successfully Content with Your Life

One Simple Way to Live a Successful Life

Letting Go of the Life You Were Told to Want

How Following Someone Else’s Path Can Lead to Depression

Why It No Longer Matters to Me If My Job Impresses People

Dealing with failure

5 Ways Failure Can Be a Blessing in Disguise

Failing Doesn’t Make You a Failure (and You Can Still Succeed)

It’s Okay to ‘Fail’ on Your Way to Finding What You Want to Do

3 Simple Ways to Turn Failure into Success

How Failure Holds the Key to a Meaningful, Successful Life

Why We Need Mistakes and Failures

How to Be Really Great at Failing

Reframing My Job Rejections: A Beautiful Period of Growth

Finding Happiness When Your Big Dreams Didn’t Come True

The Six Ps: What to Do and Not to Do When Dealing with Setbacks and Failure

When You Keep Failing: How to Recover and Boost Your Confidence

Overcoming the fear of failure

Scared to Try: Moving Beyond the Paralysis of Perfectionism

Finding a New Path When You’re Attached to the Old and Scared of Failing

How to Adopt a Growth Mindset and Stop Fearing Criticism and Failure

Why I Won’t Let the Fear of Failure Hold Me Back

Overcoming the Fear That Stands Between You and Your Dreams

Releasing Self-Sabotage: 3 Simple Ways to Catch Yourself and Redirect

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