How to Survive Your Lowest Point in Life and Business

By Coach Sugeng Santoso

Even though starting your own business is one way to achieve your financial freedom that you want, we should realize that everything in the world is bound by natural laws that govern it.

A few weeks ago, while on a business training, I received an important message on my mobile phone.

A message that describes the struggles, desires, and inner struggles of a business owner who is currently facing the lowest point in his business.

With all the fears of bankruptcy and the possibility of losing everything, I really appreciate his willingness to contact me.

I write this for you anyone that is facing the same challenge

Life Cycle:

One of the largest natural laws which we must always understand is that "everything in the earth has a life cycle".

Humans, have life cycles, from infants, toddlers, children, adults, grow old, and then finally returned to his/ her Creator.

There is nothing we can do to prevent the cycle of our lives to keep rolling!

But we should realize that we are the only creatures who were given "the power to choose and think" by Our God - The Almighty, to be able to do the best in this life in order to minimize the negative effects that can shorten our life cycle.

We can choose and lead a healthy lifestyle, eating nutritious foods, do not smoke, do not drink alcohol, even when we become more advanced in technology and science, we can find a variety of medications to help us when we are experiencing an illness.

Similarly, in business, life, career, and even our products and services that we have, they will always have the "life cycle".

And for sure, we all will experience "a point" where we feel that it was the lowest moment in our business lives.

However, as long as we do not give up and always focus on a solution to achieve our goals, we will have the "power" to minimize the negative effects of that point and we will be able to improve it.

In my vocabulary, there is no word "surrender"!

I, personally, have been through many trials and challenges.

I have been given "a second chance" to get up from my very difficult past, that makes me struggling, live a falter life, I even tried two times to leave this world.

I have faced many challenges that now I am grateful for, because all of these challenges have shaped me into the person as I am today.

I can handle all of these challenges because I believe that:

"The causes of man's greatest failure are to give up too early and do not have a commitment." (Napoleon Hill)

Here are some simple tips to help you survive in your lowest point of your life or your business:

1. Have a New Attitude toward The Problems You Face:

The attitude that we show in our lives always represents the FOCUS of our thoughts on something that we are facing.

We should be grateful that the focus of our mind is something that can be set and be able to influence.

How to do it?

It's simple, make a decision "TODAY" to never follow the thoughts that lead to negative feelings inside of you!

What I mean by "negative" is not about right or wrong, but rather whether the feelings generated by the focus of your mind makes you move away from the goals you want to accomplish.

Build new networks, change the communities in which you often spend time, surround yourself with the right people, read books, listen to audio CDs and watch videos that generate positive feelings or emotions in you! Something that causes you to move toward, the drive to resolve the existing problems and push yourself towards the goal that you want to accomplish.

Look at this lowest point of your lives as the "Three Feet From Gold" point.

(The term "Three Feet From Gold" was popularized by Napoleon Hill)

Our "Three Feet From Gold" position should be something that is very exciting and should make us more persevering and committed, because we believe that "we are in the right track" and soon we will DEFINITELY get a "reward" for all that we have committed to do.

Like digging for gold, three feet further away, we will surely find the gold line!

So hang in there and keep digging, monitor the feedback of your action, and adjust your strategy to get the results that lead to your goal.

Do a "review and learning" process from every result you get from your action.

Learn from the right people, people who have successfully passed the challenge you are facing today. Adjust your strategy, take a new decision and act immediately.

In each situation, a decision with measurable and planned actions will always be better than just sit and remain silent to accept our fate.

Remember that perseverance is not just doing the same thing over and over again, but to persevere is to committed to doing something that make us move closer to the goal we want to achieve. This includes your courage to change the level of knowledge, skills, attitudes, habits, and your network, that will help you to resolve the problem you are facing.

2. Have a Commitment not just an Interest:

There is a big difference between commitment and interest!

As in marriage, this is the way we should treat our business!

If we marry someone, we are not just interested or attracted to her or him only, but it does mean we have committed to be with her or him, in joy and sorrow, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health.

Likewise in our business!

When we are committed, it means we have closed the door and the possibility of failure in it!

Challenges will always come and go, it will always be present.

But when our challenges come, we "MUST" look for a way to solve it instead of running to leave or avoid it!

Meet mentors, read books, follow the workshop on the challenges you are facing and learn new things to solve the challenge. Grow bigger than your challenges.

For successful people I meet, I have found a similarity.

They are not trying to avoid or shrink from the challenges they face, but they put focus to grow themselves bigger than the challenges.

Imagine a scale of 1 to 10, 1 is the lowest and 10 is the highest. If your challenge is level 6, and you only have level 1 of your knowledge, skill, attitude, habit and network, what does it look like?

Off course the challenges is really a big problem for you.

But if you grow yourself become level 9 in term of your knowledge, skill, attitude, habit and network, would the same level 6 challenge be a big problem or little problem for you?

Yes, it becomes a little problem for you! It starts to look like the normal things that you have to handle everyday, like brushing your teeth.

We always need a higher level of knowledge, skills, attitudes, habits, and even a new network to take us to achieve the next level of success in our lives.

Make a commitment, focus on your goal and do whatever you need to do as long as it is positive to overcome your challenges and keep your life and business successful!

Interestingly, by solving the challenges we meet in our life and our business, automatically our quality and competence will grow!

You will always find new challenges to force yourself to keep growing.

When we stop growing, we die...

Congratulations, you have reached your "Three Feet From Gold" point!

Three feet further away, definitely you will reap your success!

Warm Regards,
Coach Sugeng Santoso

USA Certified Personal Development and Business Performance Coach - Master Trainer. I help people to make money and live to the fullest by maximizing their full potential!