Month: July 2021

Successful people have setbacks. Everyone does. But successful people bounce back. They have persistence. They are resilient.
~ www.jaywren.com

Do you have the qualities of persistence and resilience? If not, how can you develop them?

With persistence, great sports teams come from behind to win the game. Great inventors with persistence work through research and development failures until they have a successful product.

And with resilience, these people can fail and try again until they succeed.

These people are empowered for success.

Persistence and Resilience

Persistence (that is, staying at a task until you achieve success) and resilience (that is, returning to a task to find new ways to achieve success) go hand in hand.

So, what do successful people do to overcome failure?

Push Ahead

In some cases, you may have just encountered a bit of resistance. If you have made progress in learning a new skill, but you hit a step that you can’t complete or perform. Practice is a method of pushing ahead when you run into challenges.

Even with a perfect product and plan, business campaigns can encounter resistance. However, as the participants continue with the campaign, they may find that they become more effective at using the plan. Additionally, they may find new prospects who need the product or service. By simply pushing ahead, these people find success.

And persistent, resilient people double back. They return to people and places where they first found rejection. After finding success, persistent people give their customers and clients a second look at the solutions that their products and services offer. Or, in the case of research and development, they retry experiments or methods to determine if their first efforts had flaws.

Ask Questions

Persistent people don’t walk away without first knowing they have given their best effort. To know, they ask questions about their methods and efforts.

“What can I do differently?”

“Do I need to change my strategy?”

“Is there a better design for my product?”

“Who can help me find new solutions or approaches?”

“Is there a proven method that I should adopt?”

Self-consciousness is an obstacle to confidence. When I lack confidence, I am focusing on myself.

Loss of Confidence

When I lack confidence, I am focusing on myself. I have a heightened feeling of uncertainty about my abilities and about my acceptability.
Confidence, for me, comes from focusing on my activity and my surroundings: the people and the objects down to their colors and details. In so doing, I become conscious of my world and hot on the things in my head.

The Hammer and the Nail

Driving a long nail into a solid piece of wood can be difficult. When I think about the length of the nail or how it might bend the nail, I often do bend the nail. Or, I might hit and damage the wood. Or even worse, I might hit my fingers or my thumb. I lack confidence. My focus is on my inability to drive a nail straight into the wood. I am self-conscious.

Success

More successfully, when I am looking directly at the head of the nail, and thinking seeing my hammer hit the nail, I lose self-consciousness, I gain confidence. I drive the nail straight into the wood.
I stay focused on my target. As coaches teach a baseball batter, see the ball into the bat.