Teresa on The Daring
“Life is an adventure, dare it.”
–Mother Teresa (1910–1997)
Albanian missionary
Nobel Peace Prize winner
Sales risk…
One business that’s helpful to me when I catch myself shying away from taking a risk…
I remember that I’m not so vital that a mistake or failure will likely have any lengthy impact or be that hard to overcome with a small extra effort and time. (If you happen to be a head of state, a Supreme Court Justice, or a military general, maybe you need to be a small more careful. Of course, I’m honestly confident you’re not getting SalesQuotes.)
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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.
(email this reminder or inspire someone with the resilience pocket card or wristband)
Outside the money hours (or on a well-earned break) Honda has 8 minutes on how failure is a part of success (on the track and in business).