Determination is key to staying personally effective. As discussed earlier when we explored maintaining a realistic perspective, no matter how resilient we are, we are all bound to encounter some professional situations where our efforts—as well as our end results—can really miss the mark. Oftentimes, this can elicit varying degrees of disappointment, disillusionment, and highly undesirable feelings of discouragement.
In these cases, discouragement, while perhaps the most common-sounding of the three, may actually be the most destructive emotional reaction. This is because—if not kept in check—discouragement can often ...
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