The Struggles Are Real: Learn From Them

Morning Mindset Cafe is about sharing a success principle or quote and what it looks like in real life. Drink your coffee or tea, listen to the short episode, then think on it a bit and look for ways that you can put it to use in your life. Join the GROW Alliance Facebook group to meet others and share your thoughts about each episode. https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGROWAlliance/ Today's mindset thought for the day Great achievement is born of a struggle. Our strength grows out of our weakness, said Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Not until we are pricked and stung and sorely shot at, awakens the indignation which arms itself with secret forces.” Strife and struggle can inspire you to overcome adversity and to propel yourself to real achievement. View every struggle as an opportunity for personal growth. It is the struggle itself, not the result that builds character. If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail — and you eventually will if you stick to the job — they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it. ~ Napoleon Hill ---------------------------- Growing a business is hard work. The struggles include: finding a new team member keeping the sales pipeline filled with prospects responding to clients' needs keeping distractions at bay being confident of a decision that is based on 60% intuition, 40% information adjusting to canceled appointments/canceled contracts continuous improvement activity - operations, finances, marketing, product/service staying on course when disaster hits moving past non-paying customers personal adversities - Life happens with and to loved ones Learning from the struggle can happen quickly - I like debriefing sessions. That's when I take the time to review what occurred, note the process used to get through it, then note the areas that can be improved on. The debriefing session was learned during a disaster that hit the business a few years ago. Learning from the struggle can take a long time. The business was close to shutting down in 2013 and by 2014 I was deep in survival mode - short term thinking that affected every aspect of the business. No real business growth happened until the end of 2015. I struggled and bumbled along the way, looking for the solution to getting out of survival mode. Came upon it in summer 2015 and by year end was entering thrive mode. Consistent, persistent, shared study of success principles focused my mind on what works and eventually the rest followed. The struggle to learn something new, to practice, experiment, make mistakes, keep going after you think you've got it figured out - is all part of achieving the goal. Those who do it, succeed. I want to succeed, therefore I'm willing to tackle the strife and struggles as they happen.