5 Tips To Increase Resilience In Solo-Entrepreneurs
By Kaylee D Murphy
Jan 17, 2013
At some point, every entrepreneur is faced with challenges and obstacles. There is no avoiding it. Developing the ability to persevere through challenging and uncertain times is the definition of resilience. The good news is any entrepreneur can increase their resiliency. Here are 5 ways to increase yours:
1) Optimism
Maintaining an attitude of optimism has helped many entrepreneurs get through scary times. If you don't tend to be the most optimistic person here are a few things you can do:
* Practice Gratitude - Get into a daily habit of being grateful for what you appreciate and what has gone right today.
* Mantras/Affirmations - Repeat saying some phrase or quote that makes you feel more positive and hopeful. Mine is plain and simple: " I can do this.
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Understand that struggle doesn't equal failure. Struggle is a part of everyone's success story. Read the success story of famous people (Thomas Edison is my personal favorite) and you will hear how they overcame several challenges and obstacles on their road to success.
5) Proactive Problem Solving
When problems arise, your ability to assess them and develop several possible solutions will keep you moving forward instead of getting stuck, sidetracked or worse yet, giving up. Proactive problem solving means being able to see the problem from many angles and adapting the attitude of "inside every problem lies the solution". Get help from your support system to brainstorm options and to give you support if some of the solutions require doing something that you find scary.
Developing your resilience will give you the strength, courage and solutions required to thrive on the entrepreneurial path. Get in the habit of taking action every day to stretch and strengthen your resilience
In life we tend to see failure as a terrible thing. When we do fail, most of the time we want to give up and see it as the end of the world. However there are few that see failure as an opportunity to do better and rethink the mistakes that were made in the past. Angela Duckworth, Emily Hanford, and CarolDweck all provide their research on how one can have highachievement e in life. Angela’s Duckworthresearch on grit proposes the idea that if someone stays persistence for a long time they can master something.
Many people have different adjectives and phrases to answer the question “what is resilience” but each answer is the same. People know what it means to be resilient, but there are not many resilient people in the world. Not many people could get beaten, verbally abused, and come back against all the odds. To be resilient people need to keep their dignity and their pride and that is exactly what Louis Zamperini, Ed Roberts, Jason Zimmerman, and Frederick Douglass did. These four men had all the odds against them with so much suffering, but they rolled up their sleeves and fought through that pain because they are the true definition of resilience.
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n 7 Assignment (10 points): Read the article by Froma Walsh. List the key processes that foster resilience outlined in this article. follow. The main thing seen as reading through this article is how it discusses the way families work through a stressful or even devastating life situation. One family may choose to use a hopeful outlook or use a type of spiritual value to recover quickly from difficulties that are causing the situation.
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If anything failures can lead to success if you learn from
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2.2 Teacher resilience A good number of studies has shown that facing various challenges for teachers in different years of their teaching is inevitable. This issue become important when teaches lack the ability of managing these difficulties which may result in burnout and attrition. To be on the positive side, equipping teachers with qualities that prevent them from frustration and make them to thrive than just survive was an ongoing concern for teacher educators and policy makers. Resilience, as a specific strategy that individuals usually apply when they face a kind of adverse situation (Castro, et al., 2010), has been attracted a lot of attention among researchers.
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Always see yourself succeeding. Being successful is your main objective and if won’t think success then your dream might fade before you achieve it. Thinking success will keep your mind focused on what you want to be hence, it is a vital feature for any entrepreneur to have for them to realize success. 2. Always Plan