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  Change is inevitable. Sometimes it can be positive – business growth or a pay raise. At other times it can be painful – losing your job or a personal loss. Often the hardest changes to understand and adjust to are the ones that are unexpected and out of our control – a recession, a global pandemic, or a major disaster, for example. Changes of this magnitude can be difficult to come to terms with, but you'll often find that your experience of them can be made better or worse depending on your reaction and your attitude. So, in this article, we'll explore the different ways in which people tend to approach change, the reactions that you might have, and how to best cope with it. How People Cope With Change People tend to cope with change in one of two ways: Escape coping. Control coping. Escape coping  is based on avoidance. You take deliberate actions to avoid the difficulties of the change. For instance, you might deliberately miss training for a new working process, or show ...

  Smart, resilient people will always surpass geniuses who quit. To be resilient is to be exceptional. We must have the fortitude to stand tall no matter what is happening. Resilience is achieved through the consistent progress we make each day towards our goals. These goals are the benchmarks we design our life around. To live as the exceptional human being we have the potential to be, we must be willing to risk, to know when to rest and to be unafraid to be different from the rest. In my new book  Success Equations: A Path to Living and Emotinally Wealthy Life  I teach that resilience requires that we dig deep to overcome the challenges life and business natually bring. To be resilient we must view challenge as the catalyst that inspires our personal development. Life’s challenges will absolutely test us to our core. It can be scary. Yet, it is exactly when a challenge brings ...

  Harvard Research Says If You Want to Improve Your Performance, Don't Ask for Feedback-- Ask for Advice It's contrary to popular belief for how to get better at something, but the research findings are right. Everyone wants to get better. Heck, there's an entire  multibillion-dollar industry  called  self-improvement  that takes form in a myriad of ways. The question is, how does one get better in a better way? How do you do it more efficiently and effectively? Researchers from the Harvard Business School can now lend a hand. Let's say you've just given a key sales presentation. The normal line of thinking goes that if you want to improve, then you should ask the people you just gave the presentation to for feedback. Seems reasonable. But the  Harvard researchers discovered  that there's a real problem with this approach. Feedback is often too vague to be helpful. And, in my experience, when you frame it as asking for feedback, people o...