Assess Where You Are

Quick reference

• 00:04 In this video, we're gonna look at step four, overcome challenges.
• 00:09 Anything worth having in business, or life, comes with challenge, doesn't it?
• 00:14 Think about anything you've ever accomplished that was worth accomplishing
• 00:18 in your life did it come with challenge?
• 00:22 Absolutely, so the question is how do you approach challenge?
• 00:27 In this video, we are going to address how to overcome challenges and
• 00:31 the strategies to overcome them.
• 00:34 So, the first step is you have to assess where you are.
• 00:39 You have to be real, right, you gotta be brutally honest.
• 00:42 With yourself and your team, okay?
• 00:45 Now, here's the key.
• 00:46 You wanna be as objective as possible.
• 00:49 Take yourself out of the situation and look at the situation for
• 00:53 what it is, okay?
• 00:54 You have to gauge where you are in that moment.
• 00:57 Okay, not where you were in the past, not what's coming in the future, but
• 01:02 and the first thing you have to do is where you are in that moment, okay?
• 01:06 The second thing is you don't want to make it worse than it is, okay?
• 01:11 It may seem like a good way to motivate your team, like my God this is happening,
• 01:15 blah, blah, blah.
• 01:16 But you might cause unnecessary stress, right, or panic or something.
• 01:19 But, don't make it worse than it is just make it what it is, right?
• 01:23 And that's how you look at it, and that's how you present it to your team, okay?
• 01:27 And the third thing is don't make it better than it is, okay?
• 01:31 Cuz as leaders, a lot of us are optimistic, right?
• 01:33 We look into the future, we've got our dream, hey, we can overcome any challenge.
• 01:37 Which is true, but let's not make it better than it is in this moment, okay.
• 01:42 So, always be optimistic or hold onto your dreams or your vision, but at the same
• 01:47 time be brutally honest about the good and the bad in any given moment in time.
• 01:51 Because that's really what you need to do effectively,
• 01:54 and if you miss this part overcoming challenges is going to be difficult.
• 01:59 It's not going to work out the way you want it to work out.
• 02:02 This is step one.
• 02:03 This is that foundation for overcoming challenges, okay?
• 02:06 You have to assess where you are.
• 02:08 Be real and be brutally honest with yourself and your team.
• 02:12 Be as objective as possible.
• 02:14 Gauge where you are in that moment, not what's coming in the future or
• 02:17 where you were in the past.
• 02:18 And number two, don't make it worse than it is.
• 02:21 Right, don't make it worse than it is.
• 02:23 Just get real on where is it.
• 02:25 And don't make it better than it is.
• 02:27 Always be optimistic and hold onto your dream or your vision,
• 02:30 but be brutally honest about the good and the bad at any given moment in time.
• 02:35 Okay, this is the start.
• 02:37 In the next video, we'll take a look at the next step.

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