Keller on Moving Forward
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
–Helen Keller (1880–1968)
American humanitarian
Advocate for the deaf and blind
Sales resilience…
resilience: noun: an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change (from Merriam-Webster)
We all fail from time-to-time (our doing, someone else’s doing, somebusiness else’s doing, a amalgamation of each). It’s life.
To be hard-wearing…
- Focus on results. Embrace the fact that results are what we’re all really after. Effort and attempts are fantastic first steps, but we need to act with commitment to delivering (just like we want people to do for us).
- Make lessons of failures. Minimize the tendency to make a failure or mistake whatever business more than a lesson on how not to do something. We need to learn from our mistakes and truly accept them as tuition for succeeding later. And yes… Our mistakes might place us in a bind at era and have some uncomfortable consequences but again, that’s real life.
- Continue on. Smarter.
- Underline. Support each other (and ourselves) by continually reminding and encouraging one another to deliver on the first three points.
That’s it. Let’s practice it more.
Encourage resilience and email this reminder to someone.
(get the resilience pocket card)
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If you have the time, Honda has 8 minutes on how failure is a part of success (on the track and in business).
Only 30 seconds? Here’s Michael Jordan’s reminder.
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