How to Use Optimism during a Setback
Challenges are there to strengthen you. At worst, they delay your success, but problem-solving is one of the many skills we need as humans.
Often a setback is a chance to advance your knowledge and see things differently, which can, in turn, result in achieving a goal you’d set yourself sooner than if you were following the original path. Your setback becomes the pivotal point that catapults you forward.
It’s, quite literally, the best time for action, despite that often being the thing we resist most.
Setbacks can heighten your motivation to achieve your goals or allow you to let your goal, relationships, and career dreams fade into the background.
Setbacks are almost giving you a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Which will you choose
If you choose to see this setback as an obstacle that needs to be tackled, you can look for all the possible ways you could go through it, under it, over it, or around it.
My clients are led through a few mental exercises that fast-track this.
Your attitude is positive; your optimistic outlook tells you you are capable despite setbacks and pushes you forward with determination.
With this adjusted mindset, you will look in the right places to seek the answer. Working with a coach, mentor, consultant, or industry expert can help you to discover the solution. When you are spiraling in fear and self-doubt, your mind is so clouded that you can’t even work out where you might find inspiration, let alone find the solution.
Tell yourself today
I will get out of my comfort zone in my challenge, and I view this setback as a positive opportunity for action and growth. I’ll be an ever stronger person on the other side if I push forward, now.
Self-Work Questions:
Do I automatically view all setbacks as bad? If so, I will ask Allison for the tool to push through his pattern.
When has a setback brought me something positive, even if, at the time, I couldn’t see it?
Am I optimistic that I can succeed despite the setback? If not, I will bring this up with Allison immediately.
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