Motivation

50 juLY 2009

Motivation

51juLY 2009

I would like you to think about how you would operate your day to day life, both per-sonally and professionally if you knew that failure was not an option?

If you knew you had no way of failure, and that sooner or later, you would attain the success you desire, what would you dare to do? More importantly, how would you dare to think?

If you begin to think of failure as a mere challenge and not an end point, could it possi-bly be that your views on certain events become different? Could the actions you take begin to change? Could this in turn alter your results?

Why do we witness a variance in results across different organisations and different countries when faced with similar chal-

lenges? After all, we are all often hit with our share of opportunity, disaster, happiness, sadness and disappointment.

Every leader and organisation is regu-larly faced with challenges. In fact if you are not facing challenges, then the chances are you’re operating well below your true ca-pabilities. Some challenges arise as a result of poor choices made, whilst others are at times, out of ones control. Nevertheless, you must learn to understand that a challenge, no matter how severe, is simply part of the game you have chosen to play.

What about those who resign to being at the complete mercy of the challenges they face?

I would like to suggest that it’s not the

challenges that define us. It is how we deal with those challenges that shape leaders and organisations that are built to last. Acknowl-edging there is a problem is fine. Staring at it and giving it power and shape by focussing on it is crazy. When faced with a challenge, you need to push through it, over it, to the side of it. You do what ever you have to do, to get to the other side. As difficult as it may seem, or as hard as it may feel to recognise this fact, just like a coin, an event will always have two sides to it.

Winning leaders address their challenges whilst still holding an immense focus of the organisation’s vision and where they would like to be once they have passed a bumper ride. They have the end reward in mind. This is what marks whether an organisation is a player worthy of being in business long term when more than 80 per cent of businesses fall out in the first ten years of operation.

Take a large organisation such as Google for a second. Do you think they let challenges hold them back? Do you think they bring ev-erything to a complete halt because they are faced with a crisis? No, they continue to push forward, fine tuning and working on their challenges along the way. It’s important to note, that winning leaders still keep their eyes locked on their vision, and therefore are con-stantly moving forward as opposed to many who are taking the sit and wait approach.

Challenges in a way shakeout those indi-viduals and organisations that jump on the ‘easy to earn and do nothing when the times are good’ bandwagon from those who are truly committed to doing what ever it takes to attain their vision. Challenges are the tests that separate champions from the field of players. How you deal with challenges will determine whether you make the cut.

For it’s not what we are hit with, but how we deal with the hit. It’s not how we are hit, but how hard we can hit back. It is not the size of the organisation in the fight, but size of the fight in that organisation that will de-termine whether it will stand the challenges in this shakeout period.

With every challenge comes breakthrough, if, as leaders you ask the right questions. It’s matter of a choice, a choice made by winning minds, a choice made by leaders in both their personal life and within their organisation.

ultimately we must remind ourselves that challenges have brought about the birth of great strategies, thoughts and processes which would have otherwise remained dor-mant in the unchallenged mind of many great leaders, happy to be playing the ever so familiar tune of complacency.

Welcome challenges in this world. Wel-come challenges from your competition. The challenges you face will help expand your thinking. If we weren’t challenged, we wouldn’t have had the laptop, mobile phone, email, air conditioning and automobiles.

It’s through challenges that our thoughts are invoked. Through challenges, we are in-spired to think. Through challenges we are inspired to dream. Through challenges, we are inspired to lead. Through challenges, we set forth towards victory, for nothing is sweeter than winning, especially when the

odds are stacked against us.If failure was not an option, and every-

thing was simply a lesson learned along the way, then over time, success would be the only option. If you knew that without a shadow of a doubt, you would not fail, would you start to think and execute different ac-tions within your organisation? I believe that you would.

If you have to succeed one way or anoth-er, tackling challenges along the way, then you simply can not fail.

Have a winning day.

Kevin Abdulrahman is The Man Inspiring Millions. He is an International Author of THE BOOK on Winning The Game Of Life, a Keynote Speaker, Mind Nutrition Expert, world class Mind Coach to the elite and an in-demand Trainer. Kevin helps organisations, universi-ties, sports teams and individuals become globally competitive by developing A Winning Mind.If you want to go to The Next Level, you can contact Kevin Abdulrahman by jumping on http://www.The-ManInspiringMillions.com or email his team at info@MeetWithKevin.com

Kevin Abdulrahman addresses the core issue of “challenges” in the present global scenario and tells us

how to use the power within to overcome them.

“When faced with a challenge, you need to push through it, over it, to the side of it. You do what ever

you have to do, to get to the other side”

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