Ask Yourself This: How Do You Handle Adversity?

Monday, March 3, 2008

Building your career – a career that takes into account positive career building goals, you know, a grand vision of life and career objectives – takes more than just time and effort. Anyone can work ten-, eleven-, twelve-hour workdays in the process of building one’s career; anyone can find time to do that.

Not everyone, however, can survive, if you will, the situations that threaten to derail your career building efforts.

No person with a solid vision in life saw that vision through without asking himself the what-ifs and possibly preparing for them. What do you do if your store burns down? What’s the next step if you lose your right-hand man? How do you handle corruption in government that looms ominously over your shoulder like some bloodthirsty leech, waiting to suck you bone-dry?

A man with a vision in life that inspires him to forge on, despite the difficulties that arise, is a man with a master plan, and, likely, a man who will see his vision in life through to completion. No successful social entrepreneur ever made it through without being a stranger to adversity; no successful businessman ever saw his goals attained without preparing well – in every sense of the word – for the challenges guaranteed to come his way.

Ask yourself this: how do you handle adversity?

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