Everybody has a crappy day at work or says something really stupid to the wife or kids at home. Everybody blows it sometimes, but here's some great advice -- especially for the workplace -- to grow from it. I especially like #7:
7) Stop Analyzing and Start Doing Something New
There is a maximum limit to how much you can learn from an experience. That limit is actually fairly small with an isolated incident. If you give one speech and it fails, you might be able to learn one or two points of improvement. That’s it. Anything you “learn” after this threshold is just speculation which is often incorrect.
I’ve seen people in failed relationships, goals that went sour or broken commitments, try to learn everything from just one failure. Unfortunately, the only way you can learn isn’t just to fail once but to fail dozens of times. Trying to scoop up too much information on a bad situation just leaves you feeling miserable with the false sensation that you are accomplishing something useful.
After you’ve gathered a couple learning points, stop. Start doing something new. Pick out a new goal and move forward. After all, isn’t that what failures are for? To give you a small learning point and direct you towards bigger and better things?
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/7-practical-steps-to-turn-around-a-bad-experience.html
