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3 Kind of Challenges and 4 Ways to Overcome Them

There are 3 types of challenges, and this article provide 4 ways to overcome them. Challenge is understood differently. When people think about it, they see a problem. This makes challenge one of the most difficult things to overcome. Nobody can overcome challenges that overwhelms the mind, and adrenaline pumping makes it hard to move ahead. When you run your own business, never make a decision without a cool-head. Because every decision you make with hot-head cost you more than expected.

Start with defining it. Challenge – when it comes to business – also occurs when a company enters the market and specialize on something that makes it superior to others in the same niche. The gap between entering and being superior has different paths. It might be necessary to take one step forward, and two steps backward. It is critical to remember that defining challenge matters.

When you tell your problem to someone else, they’ll give you their insight about what you said, which might worsen the problem. But when you look at it from your perspective, you might realize that it isn’t that bad. For example, when trying to make 500 sales within a month (during startup), and only meet half the goal, then problem automatically emerges. If you tell someone else about it, they might say it proofs business is not profitable.

But there is a gap between what you said and what they understood, and the point they wants to make. Even if you’d tell them about the situation in full, you’d realize that the person might still condemns the business, rather than tell you how to improve it. This is why the critical part of challenge is perspective. When you focus on finding a way to tackle it, everything else gets easier.

If I tell you to quit your business, and you know the best action is to improve and explore a more efficient method, who has the solution? On a daily basis, we must try to find answers. Because most companies normally set a weekly goal. Throughout the week, they will work towards it. They will consistently ask how they are doing in their effort to meet the goal. As the case of 500 sales within a month that has yet to be met, the question is “What is challenging?”

 

3 Kind of Challenges

Three kind of challenges twists the problem. The first one is knowing there is a problem, and don’t know what to do about it. When you don’t know what to do, then the best solution is asking best solution to it. This means feeling lost, and you need to find a path to overcoming it. The second is trickier than the first. Not knowing what you want is a bigger problem. These challenges are not obvious, because it is hard not to know what you are doing. You know what you want.

But it is possible to think you want one thing, when you actually want something else. For example, when you plan to sell through the phone, but under the process, you realize that visiting customers and client is more efficient. Or to first think that the main customers are individuals. But when you started, you realized that your products will better serve small- and medium size companies. It is a substitute of what you want. But what happen when you make changes to the organization to serve those changes?

These are examples of what challenges do when we thought we want something, but realize we want something else. The challenge is switching from one thing to another. The third is most common. You know what you want, but don’t know how to do/get it. These conditions are best, because when you know what you want, but don’t know how to do/get it, then you can find a way to achieve that objective. There are different resources and materials that helps you achieve a goal. This challenge makes goals worthy. Anything is achievable, when we know what we want to do.

4 Ways to Overcome Challenges

Challenges are inevitable in personal and business live. You might consider multiple methods to overcome it. These 4 are based on experiences that have successfully tackle them. But no matter how tough it gets, always remember that your best first-response is to control the challenge.

1.      Don’t be Afraid

There is nothing more problematic than being afraid of challenges. Fear causes more problems than it solve. When you are afraid of something, you might exaggerate it. Fear can be the first reaction. But the most powerful response is to withdraw from the problem, and cool your mind. Instead of fearing it, embrace it. Fear is the greatest enemy when challenges comes your way. First response should be neutralizing it, before you do anything else.

 

2.      Use Your Mindset

Your mindset is among the most challenging aspects to overcome a challenge. Because a mind that already gives up will not consider moving forward with a goal. This is why your mindset must be “what do I have to do to overcome this challenge?” Goals are achievable with a mindset to move forward, despite the challenge. Using mindset include taking control over the situation. Your mind is either controlling the situation, or the challenge is controlling the mind.  When you are controlling the situation, you see a way to move forward.

 

3.      Infiltration

Infiltration is a military strategy against an opponent. But private people and companies use it to find a loophole in the market, and develop the best strategy to do anything that simplify its execution. Ask “how do I infiltrate this challenge?” It means following a simple task that tackles it, which makes the following process easier. One simple infiltrating task will open another section of the challenge overcoming process.

 

4.      Your Greatest Strength

Everyone has a greatest strength. Some people can retain their strength by smiling and joking about the problem. It relaxes the brain, and triggers possible solution. Other people’s strength lies in their ability to look at the big picture, analyze it, and take the best action. When facing challenges, and we know our greatest strength, it can be a powerful weapon against it. This strength is not necessarily just in you, but also in your team.

It is synergizing with the team member that build strength. Imagine what happen when one party is weak, and the other is strong. They can strengthens one another, which makes the working relationship more beneficial. When facing your greatest challenge, rather acknowledge your greatest strength, and use that to find the best way to overcome it.

These four ways can be collaborated, and mixed. You can choose multiple methods to suit your need. In conclusion, how you define challenge is critical to tackling it. Others might have negative effect on how you understand it. But yours must dominate it, due to it collaborating with a negative definition. Then you acknowledge what makes it a challenge. When you know that, it is easier to overcome it and achieve the goal.

There are 4 ways to overcome it. Stop being afraid of it, because it makes you exaggerate it. Another is having a mindset that focuses on “what do I have to do?” about the issue, because it facilitate a solution-oriented mindset. The third is knowing how to infiltrate the challenge. It normally starts with a simple task that cripples the situation, and allows you to follow the process that gradually solve it. The fourth is relying on your strength, because it is the most powerful thing you have against any challenge. These four facilitates how to overcome challenges.