S6 E6 (Building Success Habits) Exploring the law of Pain

Londina Cruz & Donna Kunde - “Building Success Habits”

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Introduction

“I’ve never known anyone who said, ‘I love problems,’ but I’ve known many who have admitted that their greatest gains came in the middle of their pain.” - John C. Maxwell

How do you usually respond to bad experiences? We all have them. Pain prompts us to face who we are and where we are. What we do with that experience defines who we become. 
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Objectives - The WHY
John McDonnell said, “Every problem introduces a person to himself.” The problem introduces a side of ourselves that still needs to grow. Growth doesn’t come automatically. It only happens through evaluated experiences coupled with an action plan for change. If we don’t apply the law of Pain, we will inevitably end up in Einstein’s world where we keep doing the same things but expecting different results. 

Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

1. Good management of bad experiences leads to great growth.
   

What You Need to Know - The WHAT

1. What we all share about bad experiences: Everyone has them; No one likes them; Few people make bad experiences positive experiences
   
2. Everyone has a “pain file.” Let’s explore some common pain files:
   
   1. Pain of Inexperience
      
   2. Pain of Incompetence
      
   3. Pain of Disappointment
      
   4. Pain Conflict
      
   5. Pain of Change
      
   6. Pain of Bad Health
      
   7. Pain of Hard Decisions
      
   8. Pain of Financial Loss
      
   9. Pain of Relationship Losses
      
   10. Pain of Not Being Number One
       
   11. Pain of Traveling
       
   12. Pain of Responsibility
       

What You Need to Do​​ - The HOW

How to turn pain into gain: 

1. Choose a positive life stance.
   
2. Embrace and develop your creativity. 
   
3. Embrace the value of bad experiences.
   
4. Make good changes after learning from bad experiences.
   
5. Take responsibility for your life.
   
6. Assess your attitude toward negative experiences up until now and describe how you approach painful failure, tragedy, problems and challenges. 
   
   1. I do anything and everything possible to avoid pain at all costs.
      
   2. I know pain is inevitable, but I try to ignore it or block it out.
      
   3. I know everyone experiences pain, so I just endure it when it comes.
      
   4. I don’t like pain, but I try to remain positive despite it.
      
   5. I process the emotion of painful experiences quickly and try to find a lesson in them.
      
   6. I process pain, find the lesson, and make changes proactively as a result. 
      
7. Use a current difficulty to help learn how to become more creative by doing the following:
   
   1. Define the problem
      
   2. Understand your emotion
      
   3. Articulate the lesson
      
   4. Identify a desired change
      
   5. Brainstorm numerous pathways
      
   6. Receive others’ input
      
   7. Implement a course of action
      
8. Insight is only valuable if you attach it to changes you will make based on what you learned. Spend time recalling the last five bad experiences. Write the experience and the lesson learned. Then evaluate and give yourself a grade on how well you implemented those changes in your life. 
   
9. ​Listen to the Building Success Habits Series
   
10. Download the IBGR Business Growth App
    
11. Challenge beliefs that no longer serve you. Quote: Eric Hoffer - “No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need other people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps a book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need other people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.”
    

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