Adversity Is Your Advantage

To succeed in business, you must know one thing: businesses succeed in turning things around. It’s common knowledge that life has its ups and downs, and the downs always seem to hit us the hardest. Adversity is something that most people try to run away from and label as a problem. 

Theodore Roosevelt said, “Nothing in life worth having is easy.” With work comes difficulty and obstacles you will inevitably have to hurdle to get to the next level. It comes down to a mindset shift. When going through those tough times, approach it from the mindset that this is what you must go through to elevate your life. When you substitute the thought of difficulty for destiny, you will instantly find that determination and grit within you that will launch you forward. 

Learning from failure

Success hinges on never giving up and knowing how to flip circumstances to create your own advantage. Sure, you’ll fail and likely fail more than once, but learning from failure is part of it. In the process, you will learn how to persevere and be creative. 

Adversity gives you confidence.

Adversity makes you into who you are meant to be. The confidence you gain from overcoming it can’t be earned any other way. This confidence is the cornerstone of your attitude, the engine of your persistence, and fuels your ability to dream bigger dreams. You can’t learn the confidence adversity teaches you in a classroom or from a book. You can’t fake it; you learn it from experience. There is no shortcut – period. 

Adversity and the struggles and hardships that come with it make you stronger. These experiences will empower you to get what you want out of life. If it were easy, everyone would do it. But you’re not just anyone. You are a business owner, and businesses succeed in turning things around. You are on a mission to achieve your goals and maximize your life.

How to face adversity

• Step 1: Activate your positivity, dream, and dream again. 
• Step 2: Go deep, and maximize your productivity. 
• Step 3: Serve others. 
• Step 4: Understand wisdom when you see it

The challenge is getting too comfortable; discomfort is greatness in disguise. Allow yourself to be uncomfortable and face the challenges ahead. The challenges you don’t face become your limiting walls. Nothing will give you a better return on investment than when you invest in yourself.