Recently I met some traders who told me that they were experiencing very poor sales in their businesses. They told me that customers were no longer coming as usual. So the traders resorted to playing the game of Ludo and Whot during business hours. I asked them if the games that they were playing will be a solution to their current challenge. They said they use the games to forget the poor business cycle they were passing through.
I told them that tough times are times for creativity. That tough times are times of thinking outside the box. A period one should try to see if there will be new ways of doing things. I told them that great entrepreneurs and business people thrive on chaos. I made them to understand that playing games during tough times is weakening their thinking prowess.
This is the undoing of many people today. They allow trivial things to replace moments of turning points. If not for difficulties great businesses wouldn’t have been born. Many ideas are birthed in the altar of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. What is facing you is not the major problem. The tough times starring you in the face is not the main issue. The main issue is what you chose to do in times of tough times.
Every challenge presents an opportunity for one to be creative and think outside the box. Those traders who were playing games during business hours can decide to think and see if there will be other ways of confronting the poor sales issue head on. There could be innovative marketing ideas that could spring up. Many people do not suffer from lack of education but lack of thinking. No wonder Albert Einstein said that Imagination is more important than knowledge. This statement is a big reality today.
Challenges bring changes. Competition should make one to be competitive and not complacent. If things do not challenge us once in a while, this world will be too dull. Challenges should help us to maximize our potentials. Tough times release our hidden resources. People who complain during tough times do not know that tough times are blessings in disguise.
Challenges create opportunities. Any area of your life that you lack challenges will never improve. Welcome challenges with open arms and tap the opportunities hidden. Challenges improve our thinking. Whatever tough time in any area of your life is actually placing a demand on you to reason better and change the gear of your thinking. It is for you to think differently and expand your thinking to frontiers you never ventured into in your thinking endeavours. I support you to break your thinking barriers and use tough times to mess up your challenges.