Lose with grace and professionalism to maintain relationships that you will need in the future. This allows you to compete and win the next time an opportunity comes up. While losing isn’t fun or the end goal for anyone, how you lose will determine your ability to compete again.
The way that you lose or win is an important part of competing. Winning shows that you were able to do or say better than those you were competing with. Losing offers opportunities to learn and improve. Both are important factors for success. Losing just means that success will come at a later time if you lose with grace.
What Losing with Grace Is
- Accepting disappointment because it is inevitable.
- Keeping disappointment isolated to the event of loss, don’t allow it to spill into other areas of your life.
- Seeing the value in the experience of competing.
- Maintaining a cool, calm, and collected appearance.
- Reflecting on the situation to reveal the learning opportunities and ways to improve.
- Avoiding the melancholy immersion into self-pity.
What Losing with Grace Is Not
- Giving up and accepting defeat.
- Being argumentative when pleading your case in an effort to change the decision-maker’s mind.
- Personally attacking the person or persons who made the decisions.
- Attacking the decision-maker’s integrity or ability to make good decisions.
- Disrespecting your opponents win.
- Reacting at the moment.
- A sign of weakness or lack of competitive spirit.
Losing with grace is being kind, authentic, and positive about the experience. Life is full of daily competitions and there is always a winner and a loser. Losing with grace ensures you don’t allow negativity, hate, and arrogance to stop you from competing again in the future. It will also improve your ability to learn from the situation and do better the next time.
Last updated on August 25th, 2020 at 09:16 am
