Celebrating Failure

A time i failed this summer, was at my job as a teller at wells Fargo. each quarter or 3 month period we have sales goals that we strive to meet. Every quarter since I've worked there i have been able to go above and beyond the goal in sales of accounts and other financial solutions. Many of our other team members we falling behind in solutions so i was placed in the drive through to give them a little more chance to get their numbers up because you have a much smaller change of gaining solutions when working drive thru. i was still expected to meet my own personal sales goals. However because i was in the drive through because it was more of a challenge instead of stepping up to the plate i got lazy. i wasn't trying at all to get solutions and wasn't asking customers how i could help further their service i was simply just running transactions. by the end of the quarter i still had the highest numbers in the store but i didn't meet the sales goal for the first time. i was very disappointing. one, because i didn't get my bonus check for meeting goal. and second because i sold myself short with not giving all my effort. and i let down my manager who moved me with the assurence that i could still thrive in a little bit more challenging setting.
i learned that you should always give your 100 percent no matter what. in this case i set myself up for my own failure. even when things get tough you should push through. the feeling you get after you've just complete a very hard task is well worth the effort. versus not eve attempting to complete the task and feeling unaccomplished.
i'm very good at handling failure just because i am such a competitive person that i i see myself fall or i'm unable to get an outcome that i wanted i get right back up and push harder to achieve my goal weather it takes 1 6 or 100 tries. However i do still think failure is a hard thing. its never easy to admit defeat and to see where you faulted because you cant change the outside world you can only change the actions you made.