Developing Resilience
I hope that you’ll enjoy this excerpt from my book, “Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur.”
“As a female entrepreneur or leader, you’ll need to cultivate a mindset of resilience to help you bounce back from the inevitable obstacles associated with launching and running a startup (or leading a business). Some days, you are going to feel like you’re being bounced around on the heavy-duty setting in your washing machine, so you’ll need the strength to climb into the dryer and get those wrinkles out! I’ve been there before: losing a large client, hitting a major snag with products, or having to deal with some other type of complicated issue. You’ll face similar situations, too. We’ll discuss how you can develop mental strength, overcome adversity, adapt to change, pivot after failure, deal with setbacks, increase confidence in your power, and learn to reframe difficult situations — nothing is so insurmountable that you can’t handle it.
You are a business owner and leader now: you will not win every fight you’re in, and you’ll lose supporters and backers along the way. If the path to entrepreneurship were an easy one, there would be many more successful entrepreneurs out there. In order to grow and thrive in business, you are going to need to develop the ability to overcome hindrances and keep trudging along as you face failures, setbacks, and disappointments. These pitfalls will be…
