
009. Failure Isn’t Holding You Back, Your Excuses Are | Civilian Transition | Veterans & First Responders
Your Next Objective podcast: Round 9, offers practical guidance and career readiness for military members, law enforcement, firefighters, organized based on how far out your transition is. In this episode: when you screw up, admit, take ownership, and course correct
Failure doesn’t usually wreck your transition. Excuses do.
When you miss an opportunity, struggle in an interview, send a weak application, avoid a hard conversation, or wait too long to fix something, the mistake itself isn’t always the real problem. The real damage comes when you explain it away, blame timing, blame the system…
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