Today: What does “Face the Music” Mean?
To face the music means to accept responsibility for your decisions and confront the outcome of your decisions. If you are going to lead people and be successful, you need to take ownership of your decisions and face the music no matter what the outcome. Music is a wonderful thing, but it has nothing to do with the practical use of the idiom “face the music.”
An example of this in my life was when I made a spelling mistake on an email for one of my clients. I had to face the music and tell my boss of the mistake I made and go through a quality review. Winston Churchill once said, “The price of greatness is responsibility.” That’s why I decided to take responsibility for my spelling error even though it was uncomfortable.
If you want to be great or be successful at business, you need to start embracing responsibility and take every chance you can to face the music for your actions.
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Happy learning!
Andrea
I did not know that this expression meant, good to know, and understand that in life we have to accept our mistakes, so we can be successful.
Sometimes people afraid to face mistake what they made.
But! I think we have to face the music.
Fear, it just a feeling and we can get over it.
great encouragement!