Business expert, Liz McKeon, shares her tips for building resilience in the industry.
Resilience is our ability to adapt and bounce back when things don’t go as planned. Resilient people acknowledge the situation, learn from their mistakes and then move forward, rather than wallowing or dwelling on failures.
There are three elements (the 3 C’s) that are essential to resilience:
1. Challenge – people who have a high level of resilience will see a difficulty as a challenge, preferring to see their failures and mistakes as lessons to be learned from, which then leads to opportunities for further growth.
2. Commitment – resilient people are committed to achieving their clinic business goals and enjoying the entire scope of their lives. They commit to business, their hobbies, friends and family – everything they care about.
3. (Personal) Control – Resilient people recognise the benefits of spending their time and energy focusing on situations and events that they have control over. They tend to feel empowered and confident because they put their efforts where they expect to get the best results and outcomes. Whereas those with little resilience are more inclined to spend time worrying about events they perceive not to have any control over and end up feeling lost and powerless. Subsequently, taking any action to improve a situation seems pointless.
To improve resilience, learning to change thought patterns is vital. How we look at adversity and stressful situations really does affect how we succeed. This is the number one reason that developing a resilient mindset is so important for business success. Running a successful clinic business demands dealing with daily challenges.
Resilient people, no matter what the setback, never see themselves as victims: instead, they have a positive outlook for the future, a desire to achieve clearly defined clinicgoals, while remaining empathetic to their peers, without wasting time worrying about what others think about them. The ideal recipe for clinic business success!
Interestingly, how we explain setbacks to ourselves is also important in building resilience. For example, start to see the effects of disappointing events as temporary, not permanent. Stop blaming yourself when things go wrong, instead start to see the circumstances or other people as the cause. Try not to let failure and setback affect unrelated areas of your life.
Failing and making mistakes is an inevitable part of being a clinic business owner. Being resilient allows us to bounce back, learn from the lessons and move on to bigger and better experiences: resilience gives us the power to overcome setbacks.
Top tips to improve and build a resilient mindset:
· Learn to relax
· Consistently practice feeling optimistic and positive thinking.
· Consciously change the way you used to think about negative experiences.
· Take the lessons from mistakes and failures.
· Your reaction is always up to you; be proactive about your goals and choose your responses.
· Avoid blowing events out of proportion and maintain perspective.
· Align your values with your clinic goals.
· Be flexible, understanding that things change and even the best made plans may need to be shelved.
Resilience is our ability to adapt and bounce back when things don’t go as planned. Resilient people acknowledge the situation, learn from their mistakes and then move forward, rather than wallowing or dwelling on failures.
There are three elements (the 3 C’s) that are essential to resilience:
1. Challenge – people who have a high level of resilience will see a difficulty as a challenge, preferring to see their failures and mistakes as lessons to be learned from, which then leads to opportunities for further growth.
2. Commitment – resilient people are committed to achieving their clinic business goals and enjoying the entire scope of their lives. They commit to business, their hobbies, friends and family – everything they care about.
3. (Personal) Control – Resilient people recognise the benefits of spending their time and energy focusing on situations and events that they have control over. They tend to feel empowered and confident because they put their efforts where they expect to get the best results and outcomes. Whereas those with little resilience are more inclined to spend time worrying about events they perceive not to have any control over and end up feeling lost and powerless. Subsequently, taking any action to improve a situation seems pointless.
To improve resilience, learning to change thought patterns is vital. How we look at adversity and stressful situations really does affect how we succeed. This is the number one reason that developing a resilient mindset is so important for business success. Running a successful clinic business demands dealing with daily challenges.
Resilient people, no matter what the setback, never see themselves as victims: instead, they have a positive outlook for the future, a desire to achieve clearly defined clinicgoals, while remaining empathetic to their peers, without wasting time worrying about what others think about them. The ideal recipe for clinic business success!
Interestingly, how we explain setbacks to ourselves is also important in building resilience. For example, start to see the effects of disappointing events as temporary, not permanent. Stop blaming yourself when things go wrong, instead start to see the circumstances or other people as the cause. Try not to let failure and setback affect unrelated areas of your life.
Failing and making mistakes is an inevitable part of being a clinic business owner. Being resilient allows us to bounce back, learn from the lessons and move on to bigger and better experiences: resilience gives us the power to overcome setbacks.
Top tips to improve and build a resilient mindset:
· Learn to relax
· Consistently practice feeling optimistic and positive thinking.
· Consciously change the way you used to think about negative experiences.
· Take the lessons from mistakes and failures.
· Your reaction is always up to you; be proactive about your goals and choose your responses.
· Avoid blowing events out of proportion and maintain perspective.
· Align your values with your clinic goals.
· Be flexible, understanding that things change and even the best made plans may need to be shelved.
