BRX Pro Tip: Happy Accidents
Stone Payton : Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, I feel like this happens to us a lot, but I have to believe part of it is maybe we have our radar up for leveraging the opportunity, but happy accidents.
Lee Kantor: Yeah. Those happy accidents or close calls, you can turn them into positive change, kind of, if you reframe it a little bit. Just look at happy accidents or close calls as kind of signals. You didn’t get the ramifications of anything negative, but it was a close call, or something happened that you can learn from without paying any of the price.
Lee Kantor: So, I think it’s important to kind of recognize, “Hey, this happened. I didn’t have to pay any price for it happening, but I could have if it didn’t go the way that it did.” So, name the lesson, not just the story, especially from a close call. Just say, what is this going to teach me about what’s going on? You know, what can I do differently to prevent it from happening at all? Or what can I take from this and maybe use it in a positive manner? So, you can learn from these things, and you can use it to impact your habits or your systems or even future assumptions. So that’s important.
Lee Kantor: And secondly is you can take it and then try to upgrade a system, not your entire life, but take the moment and turn it into a tweak. Is there a new way of doing something? Can I add this to a new checklist or a new way to insert into my calendar, or a new rule for my budget? Or is this going to be a never-again policy that you say, “Okay, don’t ever do that again because something really bad can happen.”
Lee Kantor: So, look at happy accidents or close calls in a more positive way. Sure, they scared you. Sure, it didn’t – things could have gone a totally different way that might have been really negative. But you can learn from it and then use it to your future benefit.
