The Dip “The market is a harsh critic. It's not always fair and it can be demoralizing”Seth Godin, marketing guru, author of nine bestselling books, including The Dip www.sethgodin.com
The sheer velocity AND volatility not just one dip, but the cycle of multiple dips, discontinuous changes/dips, recessions, market changes, job changes, life changes, political changes we face is extraordinary. Last year U.S. corporations spent $10 billion trying to help the best trained, most highly paid executives/business leaders in the world win the war with stress related physical and emotional illness, problems and addictions. And, this pandemic of stress has caused the World Health Organization to forecast that stress will be the major cause of disability by 2020.
Tip! "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." Stevie Wonder,Grammy Award Winning Musician and Singer
Step One-Q3 Power (the power within): Give your brain a much needed rest that will also help you develop greater Q3 power. Develop a ritual you can do in five or ten minutes almost anywhere you can find privacy. A ritual that shuts off your brain, your thoughts and your stressors for even five minutes twice a day can have a powerful impact on your life, your work, your success. Develop a ritual that creates an oasis of calm, building Q3 power and putting your brain into that critical alpha state. No matter how busy you are, you can invest ten minutes a day to give your brain a much needed rest, so that you can re-charge-refocus, re-purpose and re-power.
Step Two-Q1 Power (enhanced mind power): Build a new relationship, a powerful relationship with the dips by learning to fail forward. Unleash your ability to develop greater focus on your objectives (rather than getting absorbed in what you cannot change), stop trying to control change and learn to master your ability to use the changes you face to fail forward. Start becoming a problem transformer-an entrepreneurial leader. Model this masterful ability for others, because in so doing you will be developing more transparent communication, vertical and horizontal communication, better collaboration. Success is not achieved alone, building and sustaining success means developing a dream team with strong Q strengths and skills that compliment each other.
Step Three-Q2 Power (emotional intelligence): Develop your Q2 power-EQ. Further develop your ability to fail forward by using challenges and stressors to build one of the most critical business,m leadership and life competencies, higher emotional intelligence. What is it? The learned ability to understand and manage your emotions, understand the emotions of others, and to use your thoughts and emotions to inspire, engage, motivate and lead the best in yourself and others. You can have the best process in the world, you can have the best people on the bus, but if you are not an emotionally intelligent leader stress will grow, personal and political turf wars will flourish, dis-engagement and presenteeism subvert the success you seek to achieve. Emotional Intelligence is something that a healthy personal can build at any time during the course of his/her life, and doing it drives greater resiliency to stress, improved communication-relationship building, better leadership. Building your EQ edge can help you survive and thrive in the face of one dip or multiple dips!