Most business strategies focus on skills like good time management or becoming an effective communicator. According to Tony Robbins, achieving your dreams depends more on your attitudes and emotional resilience than on the skills your acquire.
Mastering the following five emotional hurdles will prove to be one of the best business strategies you can learn. These are issues that most people avoid and therefore remain stuck, but by learning to manage your responses as explained here, you will be on your way to achieving success, wealth and happiness.
Strategy #1. Learn how to handle frustration. Frustration is one of the greatest silent killers of dreams. Frustration is what stops people and turns a positive attitude into a negative one. And a negative attitude wipes out self-discipline. It wipes out the energy to even try, and then it’s all over before you’ve begun. Without enthusiasm and energy, how can you accomplish anything?
Solution? Seek massive frustration so you will have the opportunity to learn to manage it. Buried on the other side of frustration is success. You can master it by learning to turn frustration into fascination. You can use a series of actions to change how you see frustrating situations. In your mind you can reframe it, or breathe and change your physical state. When you stay frustrated with something or someone it’s YOUR day that gets ruined. Seeing a situation differently sets you free from negative emotion. So when you feel frustration coming-on stop, recognize it, and do something to change it.
Strategy #2. Learn how to handle rejections. Rejection is the second biggest killer of dreams. Overcoming objections and rejections is the only way to get closer to your goal. The more rejections you get, the closer you get to your dream. If you learn to thrive on it, you will get stronger because of it. You will welcome it. If you can handle frustration and rejection there is very little that can stop you at what you choose to do.
Sylvester Stallone and Tina Turner both endured massive rejection and frustration but they refused to give up. It made them stronger. For years they faced rejections, but they never gave up on their dreams. Because of the law of averages, if you keep at it, you will eventually accumulate enough “no’s” to get a “yes.” Learning how to handle rejection will show you opportunity, but only if you never give into the feeling of being unworthy.
Strategy #3. Learn how to handle financial pressure. Money plays a major role in western culture. It amplifies your ability to do more things because you can pay others to do things for you. We think life will be easier when we make more money, but money doesn’t simplify your life. If you learn to handle small amounts you can learn to handle larger amounts. This is a Biblical truth. Having more money only amplifies who you already are.
Money will do weird things if you don’t know how to handle it. It won’t make you free. Knowing how to handle money requires that you learn how to grow your own worth and make your value to people the source of your wealth. Like the story of “The Richest Man in Babylon,” by George S. Clason, which describes the principles that enable you to run your money, instead of your money running you. These principles are:
Take 10% and give it away.
Take 10% and use it to reduce your debt.
Take 10% and use it to invest for the future.
Take 70% and use it to live on.
Even when you don’t have it, giving money away makes your subconscious think, “There is more than enough.” And that will be manifested. Establish the pattern now, and let your worth be what you are capable of giving. If you think you don’t have enough money to do this, then you don’t have enough money not to!!
Strategy #4. Learn how to manage complacency — the comfort zone. It makes us feel satisfied, but not for long. We will only be satisfied by what we become, not by what we have. We tend to judge ourselves by our peers, but it’s best to learn to judge yourself by your goals, not by your peers.
Your goals are based on your values not on your peers. Who you associate with will impact your values and that can produce a negative effect. Be careful that those you consider your friends don’t “poison” your thinking with wrong attitudes. Conversely, you can always be in a position to grow by surrounding yourself with accomplished people.
Strategy #5. Always give much more than you expect to receive. Always provide something you can give that makes it feel like a privilege to be a part of what you do — where you love what you do so much that it’s not a task. Share the joy that you have in achieving your dreams and help others to change their lives. Then you get to become truly wealthy.
