What To Do When Things Don’t Go Your Way

Hey, we all look like rock stars and we all feel great when things are going our way, but in reality that doesn’t happen for anybody EVERY DAY. Including me there’s days or weeks or several weeks in a row where it seems like nothing’s going the way I want it to go.

It’s important to know what to do when things don’t go your way, and have a plan so you can stay focused and keep moving forward.

It’s important in business and in life to understand 2 things:

1.?We’re not in control all the time, no matter how much we wish we were.

2. ?We need a plan for what we do when things are not going our way. When we don’t make the sale, or when employees don’t excel like we hoped they would, or when people don’t show up for key meetings.

And when things don’t go our way we need to stick to the plan.

That’s the hardest thing for most people to do (including me)

We all need a plan in life, whether that’s a plan to exercise to get the kind of body you want.

-???????Or a plan to build a certain amount of revenue in your company. Or a plan to have a great relationship with your significant other or your kids or your friends.

-???????Or plan to scale a worldwide brand.

Every piece of your life should have at least a basic plan laid out which includes:

-???????WHAT we want to achieve

-???????WHY do we want to achieve it

-???????WHO we need on our team to achieve it

-???????WHAT ACTIONS need to take place to achieve it

-???????and finally, we need a way to MEASURE our actions so we know we’re on course.

And here’s where you get ahead in life,

when things don’t go our way, the most common thing people do is they falter on their plan.

That’s when you pull ahead of your competition. While they’re chasing shiny objects and looking for a quick fix for a roadblock they hit.

YOU STICK TO YOUR PLAN AND GET AHEAD.

Now I’m not saying that you should never deter from a plan heck the times I’ve been most successful have always been times when I’ve followed a proven plan BUT BEEN FLEXIBLE with how I reach targets.

Being flexible means that you stick to your plan but ?you take calculated risks and measure your results so you can get right back on the path without losing beat.

Successful people understand that they are going to be days or weeks or maybe even months when things just don’t go their way, and during that time YES you should be making tweaks to your plan to improve it, but never stop working your plan.

BE FLEXIBLE BUT BE PERSISTENT and you’ll be amazed at what you achieve in life.

When I wrote my first book and I couldn’t get a publisher no matter how many doors I knocked on. I had to keep telling myself this is the next stage of my life and I already burned all my boats so there was no way for me to get back to my old life, and I kept pushing and I learned how to sell books on my own.

And that was before e-books were so common.

We sold 60,000 copies in the first 60 days AFTER I made that decision, and 319,000 in the first year.

And when I was in the health club industry trying to build a profitable company, yet my team wasn’t showing up on time, which made me look bad because my clubs were not opening on time.

Imagine that we’re selling memberships telling people we’d open the doors at 5am but my team wasn’t showing up until 5:15 or 5:30!

And there were competitors all around me. And no matter how hard I worked. No matter how many nights I stayed late after we closed to try to figure out a way to have a better day tomorrow.

We still couldn’t break even on a regular basis. And that lasted for close to a decade. But I kept learning and I kept pushing and I kept improving, and that company became not only successful but also sold for way more than enough profit for me to fund my next several ventures.

When things don’t go your way, stick to your plan (be flexible but be persistent) and the coming months will open far more opportunities for growth then you could ever imagine.

And if you need help creating a plan for growth dig into the articles I post here on LinkedIn or the videos I post on YouTube and Instagram, or go to my site https://chrisguerriero.com , because there’s tools there that can help you scale smarter, faster and more predictably.

And before we wrap up think about 1 thing you’ve done in your life to keep moving forward even when things don’t go your way. Think about that for a second.

And then share that in the comment section below, because your past success will motivate others, and reading about the success of others can motivate you to reach your next level of growth! Because Just The Act Of Writing It Will Help You Commit …And Achieve It.