Building Inner Resilience For You and Your Business
Georgina at AT&T Michigan Avenue | The Magnificent Mile Store. May 19, 2022
Entrepreneurship is a grand adventure, an adrenaline rush, a ride of a lifetime, a beautiful journey to make dreams come true, and a ticket to extraordinary freedom. I’m an adventurer in my personal life as well, scaling massive peaks around the world, and preferring to take the path less traveled — maybe that’s why I love entrepreneurship so much.
I get an equal thrill from both–the entrepreneurial life and the explorer life. They both require that I be extremely resilient in order to be able to navigate the unknowns, live through the storms, and get back up time and time again after each fall. Resilience and purpose hold a space together. When we know our “Why” for doing what we do, whether it be why we choose to climb the deadly mountain, or why we choose the risk involved in starting a business, it helps to build and grow in that resiliency to withstand the tough times.
Our world has been in a constant state of change and turmoil the last few years and required a tremendous amount of resilience, not only of entrepreneurs and small business owners, but all of us. Luckily resilience is something that we can develop and strengthen over time, like a muscle.
2022 has come with a rewarding opportunity to partner with AT&T Business and share lessons of resiliency and adaptability with entrepreneurs and small business owners around the US. If you have followed my teachings, or worked with me as a coach or consultant, then you know I say, “Whatever we want on the outside, is only a reflection of what is on the inside.”
We have to start within to grow and develop the life and business we want. Our inner resilience needs to be the foundation for our outer one. This means we need to develop a resilient mind, body, and spirit. When we combine adaptivity with resilience it allows us to be productive, resourceful, and creative even while navigating through changing or challenging circumstances. It helps us through these periods of adversity.
Curious how to start the journey of building inner resilience?
Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Start Setting Boundaries
Practice Self-Awareness
Embrace Authenticity and Vulnerability
Practice Self-Compassion
Allow for Recovery Time– A pause can be more powerful than another step
Connect to a Higher Purpose/Vision–Your WHY
Deepen Awareness to Respond versus React
Try to Remain Objective
Create Space for Gratitude and the Lessons Along the Way
Celebrate the Little Wins Just as Much as the Big Ones
Focus on What You Can Control
Remember It’s a Practice—Like Training a Muscle
Tried something and it didn’t work out on the first try?
Want to know and hear more about how to grow and develop a resilient business?
Join me and AT&T Business at the Small Business Expos:
How can technology help build resilient and adaptable businesses?
Watch our Panel at AT&T Discovery District: The Power of Adaptability.
Joined By:
Brian Casad, Owner, PARADIGM Gym
Kara Brinley, Owner, Karadise Boutique
Roshan Jhunja, General Manager, Square
Jennifer Van Buskirk, President, AT&T Small Business & Mid-Markets
There is so much joy in helping others grow in their inner resilience and seeing that translate to their businesses and other areas of their lives. It is not in the comfort of what we know that we discover the truth of who we are. Change can be hard and life can present challenges that might seem insurmountable, but by focusing on what we can control and continuing to take one step at a time, we can make it. Entrepreneurship is like climbing a mountain, some days we climb one and some days it might feel like we climb 1000! Celebrate every little summit. If you have to head back down and start over–remember that is ok. Most great things in this life, take more than one try, and the only failure is not trying at all. The rest are all rich lessons and resilience training.
Here for you and cheering for your success and happiness.
This post was sponsored by AT&T Business, but the opinions are my own and don’t necessarily represent AT&T Business’s positions or strategies