Motivation
challenges that define us. It is how we deal
are you passing
the test?
Kevin Abdulrahman
addresses the core issue of
“challenges” in the present
global scenario and tells us
how to use the power within
to overcome them.
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For it’s not what we are hit with, but how
I would like you to think about how you
would operate your day to day life, both per-
sonally and professionally if you knew that
failure was not an option?
If you knew you had no way of failure, and
that sooner or later, you would attain the success
you desire, what would you dare to do? More
importantly, how would you dare to think?
If you begin to think of failure as a mere
challenge and not an end point, could it possi-
bly be that your views on certain events become
different? Could the actions you take begin to
change? Could this in turn alter your results?
Why do we witness a variance in results
across different organisations and different
countries when faced with similar chal-
with those challenges that shape leaders and
organisations that are built to last. Acknowl-
edging there is a problem is fine. Staring at
it and giving it power and shape by focussing
on it is crazy. When faced with a challenge,
you need to push through it, over it, to the
side of it. You do what ever you have to do,
to get to the other side. As difficult as it may
seem, or as hard as it may feel to recognise
this fact, just like a coin, an event will always
have two sides to it.
Winning leaders address their challenges
whilst still holding an immense focus of the
organisation’s vision and where they would
like to be once they have passed a bumper
ride. They have the end reward in mind. This
is what marks whether an organisation is a
player worthy of being in business long term
when more than 80 per cent of businesses fall
out in the first ten years of operation.
Take a large organisation such as Google
for a second. Do you think they let challenges
hold them back? Do you think they bring ev-
erything to a complete halt because they are
faced with a crisis? No, they continue to push
forward, fine tuning and working on their
challenges along the way. It’s important to
note, that winning leaders still keep their eyes
locked on their vision, and therefore are con-
stantly moving forward as opposed to many
who are taking the sit and wait approach.
Challenges in a way shakeout those indi-
viduals and organisations that jump on the
‘easy to earn and do nothing when the times
are good’ bandwagon from those who are
truly committed to doing what ever it takes
to attain their vision. Challenges are the
tests that separate champions from the field
of players. How you deal with challenges
will determine whether you make the cut.
lenges? After all, we are all often hit with
our share of opportunity, disaster, happiness,
sadness and disappointment.
Every leader and organisation is regu-
larly faced with challenges. In fact if you
are not facing challenges, then the chances
are you’re operating well below your true ca-
pabilities. Some challenges arise as a result
of poor choices made, whilst others are at
times, out of ones control. Nevertheless, you
must learn to understand that a challenge,
no matter how severe, is simply part of the
game you have chosen to play.
What about those who resign to being at the
complete mercy of the challenges they face?
I would like to suggest that it’s not the
Motivation
we deal with the hit. It’s not how we are hit,
but how hard we can hit back. It is not the
size of the organisation in the fight, but size
of the fight in that organisation that will de-
termine whether it will stand the challenges
in this shakeout period.
With every challenge comes breakthrough,
if, as leaders you ask the right questions. It’s
matter of a choice, a choice made by winning
minds, a choice made by leaders in both their
personal life and within their organisation.
Ultimately we must remind ourselves
that challenges have brought about the birth
of great strategies, thoughts and processes
which would have otherwise remained dor-
mant in the unchallenged mind of many
great leaders, happy to be playing the ever so
familiar tune of complacency.
“When faced with a challenge, you need to push
through it, over it, to the side of it. You do what ever
you have to do, to get to the other side”
Welcome challenges in this world. Wel- odds are stacked against us.
come challenges from your competition. If failure was not an option, and every-
The challenges you face will help expand thing was simply a lesson learned along
your thinking. If we weren’t challenged, we the way, then over time, success would be
wouldn’t have had the laptop, mobile phone, the only option. If you knew that without a
email, air conditioning and automobiles. shadow of a doubt, you would not fail, would
It’s through challenges that our thoughts you start to think and execute different ac-
are invoked. Through challenges, we are in- tions within your organisation? I believe
spired to think. Through challenges we are that you would.
inspired to dream. Through challenges, we If you have to succeed one way or anoth-
are inspired to lead. Through challenges, er, tackling challenges along the way, then
we set forth towards victory, for nothing is you simply can not fail.
sweeter than winning, especially when the Have a winning day.
Kevin Abdulrahman is The Man Inspiring Millions. He
is an International Author of THE BOOK on Winning
The Game Of Life, a Keynote Speaker, Mind Nutrition
Expert, world class Mind Coach to the elite and an in-
demand Trainer. Kevin helps organisations, universi-
ties, sports teams and individuals become globally
competitive by developing A Winning Mind.
If you want to go to The Next Level, you can contact
Kevin Abdulrahman by jumping on http://www.The-
ManInspiringMillions.com or email his team at info@
MeetWithKevin.com
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