I Get Knocked Down But I Get Up Again

If you are serious about getting into business and maintaining busines you really need go to develope a savvy that endures the knocks. You must also develope a mindset that operates as a switch to turn what seems to be a knock into an opportunity.

I'm going to be talking about developing that certain savvy. So, pull up a pew with your cuppa coffee and your sticky bun and enjoy...

What is this savvy? What do we call it?

The word for this savvy is resilience - Bounce Back Ability.

Resilience is the ability to get back on the horse after being thrown off it. When i was young and breaking horses in my dad used to say to me "Now that you've been thrown off you have to get back on to teach the horse that your not afraid of it" I love that saying and to this day i live by it. If anything even slightly rattles my cage i take this attitude in hand and sock it to it.

Now you might be asking "whats this got to do with business?" Well, it only has everything to do with business. Just recently i watched a documentary on TV, 20/20, about an entrepreneur by the name of Henderson who had some major dealings with IRD. According to the story IRD went out of their way, on a number of levels and for a number of years, to ruin him. The point i make is that at every level he was thrown from the horse and at every level he got back on the horse and eventually showed it who was in charge. Just as it has it Mr Henderson purchased the building that the relentless IRD branch resided in and called it 'Henderson Building'

Now thats a fantastic story. There are many of these success stories out there and many of them will be thanks to the Resilence Savvy of the entrepreneur or business owner. I hope you get a sense of how important it is to understand just how much impact this savvy has on the surival, Maintenance and grow of your business.

The next thing to briefly raise is this notion that knocks or falling off the horses is bad, terrible, crippling or worse. So, on the one hand - Yes, we do need to have this get back on the horse attitude...and we need to agree on this. On the other hand, we also need to have to ability to assign better meaning to what happens to us. For example, when we fall off the horse we say it is either a good thing, or a bad thing. Well, this is typically how we the human race respond to the event. What I'm suggesting here is that which is not so typical. I'm suggesting that you slow down when it comes to saying whether something is good or bad. It was Will Shakespeare who said "Something is neither good nor bad, it's thinking that makes it so" So, with that, SLOW your thinking DOWN. Dont be in such a hurry to label things. You see, when we slow down we give ourselves time we need to truly see and appreciate the opportunity that such an event provides us.

My partner, Colin Cox, engineered a wonderful quote. I like to call it the V8 and it goes something like this: "A setback is a setup for a comeback" Bloody brilliant isnt it! Yes! And, even more brilliant than you may realise. This is the attitude or modus operandi that we must adopt if we are to be leaders who respect learning and own healthy growing businesses. Now, my quess is that being a success or having a successful business is important to you so i would encourage you to write those 8 words on the sumo cinema of your mind so that when you are about to call something 'a bad thing' that you are fully tanked with the headgear to slow your thinking down, reframe it to ensure the opportunity is recognised, and then learn respectfully from it.

So thats a little on the HOW ? If you would like to learn more or the 'How to' and to get a full grasp of this phenomena find our more about our Self leadership programme for business that will give you the tools to perform out of your tree. If you'd like to find out more about this then post your interest and i'll get back to you in person.

Coffee was great!