How You Respond To Bad Days Determines Your Success in Business!

In this video, Matt reacts to an entrepreneur saying you should keep going even on your worst days. Matt agrees but expands on the idea. Watch for some inspiration when business feels tough.

There are tons of people out on social media giving business advice. Some of it is good advice, but most of it isn’t good. In this series watch CapForge’s owner react to different advice videos. He’s an expert in all things business and has 20+ years of experience under his belt. Some of the things he reacts to might even surprise you!

Video Transcript: 

Business Advice Video:

Key to success is not negotiating with your weakness. As an entrepreneur, you’re gonna have those days when you’re not gonna feel like getting up out of bed. You’re gonna have those days where you’re gonna feel not motivated, right? You’re having those days you get up anyway.

Matt’s Review:

Okay cool. I mean yeah, we don’t all have our best days every day. But you have certain things you have to do so you get up and go do them. That’s part of being an entrepreneur. I think even more part of it is when something goes wrong. You have a setback and then even worse you have a second setback later that afternoon, right? How you react to that says a lot about how likely you are to be successful in the future. If you can shake it off, get up, keep moving forward, deal with it, and it’s the perspective that you should give it. And don’t let it overwhelm you. Don’t let it feel like “Oh now nothing’s gonna work”. But also don’t ignore it and just pretend it didn’t happen, right? Just deal with it and move on. Keep putting one foot in front of the other keep moving forward. And sooner or later you’ll be well past the point where the stuff that you think of is a big problem today feels like a big problem in the future. You’ll have different problems in the future. You’ll have different stresses in the future. But the ones that you’re dealing with now that seem like a big deal won’t be. I mean I can remember back starting, you know, bookkeeping. We had 10 clients and we had a client cancel. That felt like a big deal and it was. And it was, you know, we wanted to make sure they didn’t cancel because of anything we did or didn’t do, or could have prevented. But now, you know, with hundreds and thousands of clients, I still don’t like it when a client cancels. And I still wanna make sure that it wasn’t because of something we did or we didn’t do or could have done better. But I also don’t worry about it as much. I worry about other things like hiring enough staff, and you know, moving into new industries, and technology updates we need, and building a management team. The client cancelling is not not important but it just becomes a problem I know how to deal with. I know what the steps are when it happens. What we do to make sure again it wasn’t our fault or it wasn’t anything we can learn from and do better next time. And then we move on. so that’s really the entrepreneurship journey. Is to figure out how to handle problems and keep moving forward. Not let them get you down and not let them defeat you. Cause there will never be a day that doesn’t have any problems. It’s really just how you handle it.