I just got off a powerful conference call with one of my mentors, Michael, a 7-figure earner with 15+ years of experience as a professional marketer.
Michael talked about how Leaders differ from “average” people in that when they face opposition, they don’t just throw their hands in the air — no, they embrace the opposition as a challenge.
Challenges propel Leaders into action. Each challenge helps move the Leader to the next pinnacle.
Opposition only confirms the Leader’s innate need to succeed. So, instead of cursing the world and yelling “why me?!”, they ask themselves, “What is good about this ‘problem’?” and “How can I turn this to my advantage?”
As we all know, whether we view the glass as half-empty or half-full...well, that’s really a matter of one’s perspective.
Michael continued: “The people you see up on stage at the events…the ones collecting the awards and the bonuses…they are no different than you. The only reason they’re up there and you’re not, is that they’ve put in more work than you, failed more times, experienced more pain. That’s it. That’s the only difference.”
“Put in the work, be willing to fail if need be, and welcome the pain. If you do this, I promise that soon, you will be up stage, too.”
Leaders don’t sit around feeling sorry for themselves. When they fall, they get back up again and keep going. And when they fail, they choose to view their failure as an opportunity to begin over again more intelligently.
A couple of years ago, after losing a substantial amount of money in a failed business venture — instead of crawling up into a corner to die — I made a conscious decision to view it as a learning experience.
It was an expensive lesson for sure, but I knew I couldn’t go back and change my circumstances or the choices I had made, so I might as well use it for something positive.
And I can assure you that lesson helped me make wiser choices in my business from that point forward!
Same thing when I got started with my current company: In the beginning I lacked focus and experience, and so I was all over the map, trying this thing, that thing… Then I finally managed to hone in on just a couple of marketing methods and make those work for me.
Did that slow me down the first several months of my business as far as financial rewards were concerned? Sure. But I reaped other rewards; I acquired skill sets that I would not have acquired had I not gone through that tremendously steep learning curve.
The result was that I became more valuable in the market place: It made more people want to work with me because I now had the know-how and the skills I didn’t have before…
Because I had more to teach them, I could also better help them. Which, in the long run, has also made me much more profitable than if I had gone the “fast and easy” road. (Ironic, isn’t it?)
What failure in your business or your life can you use today to create something POSITIVE…?
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