Using a Setback as a Setup for Comeback

Depending on your response, your setback can be a setup for your comeback.

Are you facing a crisis right now in your life? Perhaps you have problems so big, so serious that you're starting to question your worth as a human being.

Maybe it's a catastrophe and all you're seeing is destruction. All that you've built, or that you've dreamt of achieving has fallen to pieces, It has been completely destroyed, and brick by brick, you are having to start afresh.

This, my dear friend, is a setback, and sad, but true, almost every single one of us will experience a setback at some point or the other in our lives.

Hello, welcome to the half hour with Jonah Mungoshi. And today we are talking about how to use a setback as a setup for a comeback. I invite you to travel back in time, think about your life. Think about those blissful moments that we can classify as positive turning points in your life, when you achieved breakthrough success, when you achieved such radical success, that your life started to move in a different direction, positively.

There's a very high probability, when you analyse it, that at least one of your breakthroughs was preceded by a crisis. In other words, there's a very high chance that a crisis ushered into your life, one of the breakthroughs that you experienced.

For this reason, we say that a crisis is too valuable an opportunity to miss. Don't waste your crisis. Let me explain further, three reasons why a crisis is too valuable an opportunity to miss.

Important Concepts

1. Your response to a crisis determines whether or not you emerge from the crisis stronger
2. In many instances crises usher in breakthroughs
3. Don't waste your crises
4. A crisis can help us to change our habits, build afresh and identify opportunities as we look at situations from different perspectives

Number one reason is habits. We are all creatures of habits, but some of us are prisoners of habits, others are slaves of habits. We keep getting undesirable results as a result of our thoughts and our actions. But we just don't have the drive, the push, the impetus, the motivation to break away from those habits.

Well guess what? A crisis will do that for you. If it is big enough and that serious enough it will slap you so hard that you will be in a do or die situation. And you'll have no option, but to re-examine and change your habits.

Number two reason why I say a crisis is too valuable an opportunity to miss is breakthrough. Let's look at the break part of the word breakthrough. In order for you to build a new structure, maybe a new house, different architecture, different design in the same space, in you, you have to break down the old edifice the old structure that is there. But guess what? Most of us are so attached to the familiar, we can't break down the old, we just don't have the courage. For some of us, it's not even an option we can even conceive.

So, we are stuck with our old mindsets, with our old prejudices, with our old assumptions with our old ways of looking at things from the same old perspective. When a crisis occurs, when the setback is severe enough, it breaks down the old view. It breaks down your old ways of thinking, of acting, of behaving.

And as a result, you have got an opportunity to come up with a new design, new architecture and build yourself afresh, even acquire skills you didn't have before. And that's when you are using that setback as a setup for a comeback.

The third reason why I say a crisis is too valuable an opportunity to miss is awakening. Most of us are asleep to those aspects of life that we have not been exposed to. We look at life from the same old point of view from the same old perspective. We are like a horse with blinkers. And as a result of that, we've got this tunnel vision where we are in our comfort zone and acting, looking at situations exactly the same way we've always been doing.

Well guess what? A crisis will strike you so bad that it will forcibly remove those blinkers that are restricting you to just look at situations from one perspective. It will awaken you to different opportunities and possibilities.

And that, my friend, is something you can ride on if you'd like to use your setback as a setup for your comeback.

So, you want to know how exactly you can do this? I'm happy to share with you nine steps for using your setback as a setup for a comeback. Stay locked in, stay tuned and on the other side. I will share with you how you can use your setback as a setup for your comeback.