Becoming Unconquerable: How to Rebuild Momentum After a Setback
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Setbacks are inevitable…and that’s paradoxically good news if it’s you.
For those who are hard chargers, setbacks are a natural consequence of striving — sometimes frequent, often formidable. For those who exist within their comfort zones, they may rarely happen at all.
As you’re building, you are constantly stepping into the arena, and into new arenas, day in and day out. Sometimes you’ll win the day, but sometimes you’ll take a hit — and those hits can be brutal. Cut to the bone, these strikes can leave you winded, gasping for air, and struggling to recover…I’ve seen it happen time and time again. Big risks, big hits.
A blow that really puts you on the ground happens to even high-performing people.
Your company goes under, you lose your job, you get hit with a lawsuit, or you have to lay off hundreds of people. As one man told me in the face of layoffs, “This is the lowest point in my life. How will people ever want to work for me if they can’t trust me?”
Once you make the decision to really strive for something, you are accepting the possibility of not just failure, but incredibly challenging moments. They are inescapable, and — while the hits can leave you lying in the dust, wondering how you’ll ever stand back up again — the choice to recover is yours.
After you take that hit, it’s time to make the decision. Will you stay down, admit defeat, and crawl away? Or will you push yourself to your knees, struggle upward, and make it happen?
Whether you’re fighting for yourself, your family, your employees, or your team — learning to rebuild your momentum after a setback is an invaluable skill that every successful person will need to master at some point in their journey. While most of what you read out there will focus on getting knocked down — or avoiding these situations — this edition is focused on something far more potent: how to get back up.
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