The bounce back book by Karen Salmansohn

Author:Karen Salmansohn [Salmansohn, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Resilience (Personality trait)
Publisher: Workman Pub. Co., Inc.
Published: 2007-06-02T19:00:00+00:00

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Use vacations as restorations.

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IfcJl/iy 13 it that you often must go away to have important life realizations come a-knockin'? Yes, often the best way to see what's going on in your life is from a distance of a few thousand miles.

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1. Getting away reminds you: Eureka! You are just one little microdot life in this humongous world, which means you don't have huge problems. You have microdot problems, which only YOU—and YOU ALONE—are in charge of fixing. So you can live the most amazing microdot life imaginable!

2. At least for the moment it takes to stare at that amazing painting, church, view, leather pocketbook, chocolate croissant, you're being fully mindful and in the now rather than obsessing about your past difficulties.

3. When you change your scenery, you change your thinking energy— and are more apt to see new solutions. You also remove potentially depressing visual triggers that might be keeping you stuck in a negative place.

4. Vacations keep you away from phones, newspapers, e-mail, and incoming bills. Duh! This liberation creates much inner celebration!

Bounce Back Assignment:

Take a vacation— and leave your emotional baggage at the airport. If possible, go to a spot with lots of sun, thereby getting extra perks of light and exercise. While away, write yourself "in-sightseeing postcards' of your trip and mail them home. They will remind you of a perspective you don't want to lose.

See work failure as"fullure"— full of lessons.

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and by the way, it's a very distinguished successful crowd. Many members of the Fortune 500 Club could easily earn membership in the

Successful people are not people u>ko nevev fail. They Ye people luko kvioiu kou; to fail really, really luell. If tkey fall on their faces, tkey use tkat leverage to pusk tkevnselues up kigker.

Bill Gates actually relishes the lessons of failure so much, he purposefully hires people at Microsoft who have made mistakes. "It shows that they take risks," says Gates.

Harvard business school professor John Kotter says it's more worrisome to executives if job applicants claim they've never failed— because this means they've never taken risks.

Roberto Goizueta, Coca-Cola's CEO, says the risk-taker mentality is the very reason he hired back the guy who launched New Coke—a huge marketing failure.

Goizueta recognized how you can become uncompetitive if you're not tolerant of mistakes. In fact, if you let "avoiding failure" become your motivator, you're going dangerously down the path of inactivity. "You can stumble only if you're moving," he says.

Bounce Back Assignment:

Okay. So you stumbled and fell. Maybe even big-time. Focus on how your risky thinking makes you more knowledgeable. When being interviewed about your failure, own it as a positive lesson-proof you are a valuable outside-the-box thinker.

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Time not only heals, time reveals.

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