Herman: John L. Herman Jr., Author

Back to business basics

When the world seems to be going against you, how do fight back and feel good about your position? By remembering a simple rule for feeling good, that only you can start to make it happen.

Your core feeling about being positive comes from knowing you are doing all that you can to make your idea work, or your company succeed. Not just from the result of your prior actions. Some days your efforts in recent times give you definitive, concrete reinforcement that the path you have chosen is the right one. Some days you get kicked in the teeth. After 4 games in this latest American League Championship series it felt better to be an Indian than a Red Sox. The imminent results all indicated a Cleveland win in this series. But Boston can still remember coming back against the Yankees and did it again. Where did they get the resolve?

They went back to basics every day and believed that by doing so, the wins each day would accumulate and they would prevail. The Indians failed to crisis manage when it was called for and each day they let a starter put them in a hole they couldn’t climb out of.

My mantra after falling behind is always to go “back to basics” even if it something as simple as setting tiny goals that I know can be accomplished and stay alive to fight another day. You can not let the bad days accumulate against you, because you may not be able to overcome mighty momentum when he moves to the other team. By setting even the smallest goals for your company for that day…and then making that happen…you have something to smile about tomorrow. And when you put enough small winning days behind you back-to-back eventually that power of positivity creates a bigger winning aura and you surge ahead again. The old stand by phrase for me is…life is hard by the yard, but it’s a cinch by the inch.

• Posted: 22 October 2007
• Comments: 1
• Category: Business success

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