🎧🎙 Maverick Talk 🚀🎧 - Only As Good As Your Worst Day!


BY MICHAEL TINGSAGER

Five minutes that could transform your leadership and business forever.


THOUGHT

Only As Good As Your Worst Day

Success is often measured when life and work are in a state of harmony and productivity.

But how we do things on the days when everything goes well is not that important.

Remember, you're only as good as your worst day, and it's on these challenging days that we often find the best learning opportunities.

How you handle those bad days says more about your potential performance than your good days.

I got this reflection after discussing several challenges with my long-term mentor the other week.

It became clear to me that the ability to come back from a bad day—to take something from it to get better— could 10X my performance later on.

Brian Tracy also said:

“The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis."

So, the job is to use these bad days as the best learning opportunities for me to become a better husband, dad, son, friend and leader.

So when those worst days come around again...

....I’m more ready to tackle it and bounce back faster.

How are you using your worst day to become better?


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"The rarest kind of smart isn’t knowing the answer — it’s daring to change the question."

The world is full of people who can ace the test, but fewer who can rewrite it.

The most valuable kind of smart isn’t about facts, it’s about perspective: questioning the obvious, reimagining the possible, and spotting opportunities where others see dead ends.

If your team is only rewarded for getting it right, you might be starving the smart that could change everything.

This article by Morgan Housell made me think and reflect.


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