PMI Atlanta Chapter - Weekly Newsletter

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Thursday, June 26, 2025

PMI Atlanta Holiday Celebration - Monday, December 11th

Connect with your peers and leaders at PMI Atlanta's Annual Holiday Celebration! It's been a busy year. Relax and network - review our accomplishments in 2017 and what we have planned.

Although the evening will be full of networking opportunity, we will also recognize the 2017 Leadership Team and Executive Board, while introducing our 2018 initiatives.

Bring a colleague, co-worker, or friend for a special rate of $20.00! (This price is valid through December 1st). This is a great opportunity for them to take some time and get to know more about the PMI Atlanta Chapter, meet and network with our membership and sponsors in an awesome venue.

"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." ~ Mattie Stepanek

2017 EXECUTIVE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTIONS ARE OPEN!

Ballots for your 2017 Executive Board of Directors Elections will open Thursday, November 16th and will close Wednesday, December 6th at 11:59pm.

If you are a current Atlanta Chapter member, please log in to the website to verify your membership and follow the link to the survey.

PMI Atlanta presents to you the following slate of candidates for election:


Vice Chair Nagendra Roy, MBA, PMP	Treasurer Selena Buchanan	Director-At-Large Nazanin Aslani, PMP, CSM

Failure is Not Fun

By David Barrett, PMP

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."

– Fred Brooks

Failure is not fun, but if you turn it into a learning experience, you might even think it was worth it. I was to be running an event this past weekend called Launch 1.0. A one-day boot camp / workshop for anyone interested in launching their own business. I really thought it was a great idea.

Canceling it really hurt both financially and emotionally. This one was definitely a difficulty fail. But now that the date has passed, I can start to move on. Try Fail Success

The most important part of failing for any of us is learning from that failure and applying the lessons learned going forward. I must admit it all sounds very easy, but it isn’t. Some of us have egos that find any failure difficult to take. Some of us are worried about what people around us would think when they hear the failure. And still others are concerned about the effect it will have on the people involved.

I went through all of these emotions when I decided, with the help of my wife Karen, to cancel the event. My ego definitely took a hit. For a short time, I was worried about what others would think and I was definitely concerned about the commitment I had made to others for the event.

I see four phases to this journey I have been through, and that I’m still going through.

FOUR WAYS GRATITUDE MAKES FOR A BETTER WORKDAY

By Jones Loflin

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
-William Arthur Ward

If you live in the US, you'll probably hear the words "Thank You" a little more often this week. As Thanksgiving approaches, we tend to recognize the blessings of family and friends a little more and that causes us to think and act differently toward others.

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Hopefully. that same sense of gratitude will permeate thoughts about our jobs and those with whom we work. And while we think of expressing gratitude being good for the receiver (as Ward's quote above suggests), there is mounting evidence that having an "attitude of gratitude" is beneficial for the giver too. Some key findings include:

Gratitude helps your brain be more successful with difficult tasks.

According to an article at gethppy.com, "When we are stressed or upset at work, the limbic system of the brain basically takes over, suppressing activity in the prefrontal cortex which is the part of the brain responsible for 'executive functions' and creative thinking. What does all that mean? In simple terms, when you express gratitude, it creates a calm and safe environment in the brain, which not only makes you feel happier but can result in your brain, and the brains of those you work most closely with, doing better work."

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