Getting Back on the Track

If you have worked on a business plan, then you are familiar with the Murphy’s Law: anything that could go wrong would go wrong. Two categories could go wrong. Risk avoidance is one of the strategies that tackles foreseen issues. You acknowledge these risks, and know what to expect. You can assess, prioritize, analyze and respond to them.

You are an expert at using the risk avoidance, which means re-planning to avoid risks. You already know about the strategies. The second one is unforeseen. Because you can’t see it, you can’t prepare for it. However, your personal life causes more trouble than the foreseen and unforeseen risks. Have you ever face personal problems that affects your professional or business life? You are not alone, because most people – millionaires and billionaires included – face similar problems.

Imagine what you would do when you feels like the entire world is against you, while your business is facing challenges. Some people have the strength to quickly move on, while others will beat themselves up. People tends to make rational and logical decisions when we are at our best state of mind. These rationality and logical abilities fade away when we are facing some kind of personal challenges.

Our world crumbling can have high effect on the ways we respond to business strategic decisions. When this happens, we ends up in a problematic situation – dragging our business along with it. People faces tons of problems, and I don’t know what you are going through. But you needs the ability to separate personal life from professional one. Because some people tends to responds to business situations – unrelated to the personal life – using a perspective from their personal situation.

And whatever it is, simple steps can get you back on track. These simple steps should be taken, and you could skip some of them. Accept you can’t control your feelings or some of what would happens in your personal life. It is even impossible to determine if this will have any impact on your business. But, if you finds yourself in any situation that makes you feels like you’ve lost your ways or less significant, then consider how to personally process the personal issues.

Don’t make any significant decision in your business, and have a partner control the business while you process your personal situation. How you choose to get back on track depends on what is troubling you, and there is no direct guidelines to it, except to process it, and we process things differently. The only thing that matters is get over your personal problem, and get back on track.

The best personality that top businessmen/women capitalize on is their abilities to disconnect. They have the ability to just let go of their personal feelings, and deal with business. The thing that clearly separates the two is your personal life is about you, and your business life is not! Working in team prevents some problems generated from personal life. But only if you are not the one making the final decisions. Because if you are – regardless of how big your company is – the consequence/problem will be inevitable.

Multiple scenario suggests that a weak state of mind is a source of weak business. A happy mind influence happy environment, and happy environment generates happy people, and happy people makes money. If the happy mind is gone, then we could not take control. It’s hard to see life as it is when the situation seems too difficult, and business do not symbolize your life, but your vision and responding to your callings. In conclusion, process your personal problems, and make big decisions when it is necessary and with a clear and objective mind.