How many times have you started your day with thinking to yourself "How"?
So the question now becomes how much time and energy do I need to pick up the phone and call someone to confront the situation or write out an action plan to move an idea along or schedule a one on one to solve a "How". As a business owner, leader or coach that is a daily challenge that keeps us up at night or forces us to rise early to sort out our hows. It needs to become something that perhaps you can never be comfortable with each day but has to be part of the grind that forces us all into embracing running a business or team. How = anxiety but it's how we manage that anxiety with positive attitudes and confronting those how's that allows us to make progress each day.Mostly everything that causes that anxiety is based on people, which includes you. How you handle them, how you work around them, how you can help them will lead you to the solutions. I spend a lot of time at our families home in Florida which is in a massive "Active" retirement community north of Orlando. I'm years from that point in my life and career to live there full time but I really enjoy my time meeting the folks that live and love the lifestyle. To them it's paradise and no one is in a rush. Everyday is a sunny Saturday to them. I see a group of people that won the game. They lived by a set of rules, made enough good decisions to get to the point of leaving the real grind behind and enjoying the final third of their lives. They had thousands of how moments to overcome. However, their world now revolves around the how's of politics, the stock market, whats for dinner, when's happy hour and doctor visits. They still have the hows...How do I hold onto my money, how do I stay healthy, how do I get my grandkids to visit more. It's all relative, it's just the normal process of life. But mastering how you manage those anxiety is how we all can get to that point of being in a position to become one of the lucky ones to win the game too. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am a Sports & Media Executive and Entrepreneur that has spent most of my career with building revenue generating lines of business for corporations such as the NFL and The Walt Disney Company. I have had many successes and failures along the way but have never stopped learning or helping others with their journeys. Kindly comment, like or share this article below if you found it useful to you today. Find out more about my life and watch one on one webcasts with influencers in the sports industry at www.robthompsonlive.com. Also happy to connect and help you anyway I can, feel free to connect directly at; rob@robthompsonlive.com.
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