Resilience: Thriving as an Entrepreneur

1h 15mGeneral2024-10-15

Authors

Madecraft

Full-Service Learning Content Company

NIcole Kaufman

Course details

As an entrepreneur, it’s hard to keep a positive mindset while building and maintaining a business. The entrepreneurial ecosystem has its own headwinds that can propel or paralyze you mentally and emotionally. In this course, mental health therapist Nicole Kaufman shares her knowledge on how to cultivate resiliency as a business owner to ensure long-term success. Nicole starts by taking an inventory of your current entrepreneurial mindset, and then walks through key mental skills and strategies necessary to bolster and maintain a resilient growth-oriented attitude. She’ll help you to conceptualize your own definition of success, and how to achieve it in a balanced way. After this course, you’ll have the key components for cultivating psychological toughness on your entrepreneurial journey.

Learning objectives
Strengthen mental resilience.
Develop coping strategies.
Understand what success means to you.
Improve work-life balance.
Set realistic goals.

Skills covered

EntrepreneurshipSmall Business and EntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyLimited SeriesBusiness Analysis and StrategyLeadership and Management

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Achieving the impossible

1. The Entrepreneur Identity

02 - Defining resilience
03 - Shifting to an entrepreneurial mindset
04 - Is it grit or resiliency

2. Managing Perfectionism

05 - Defining entrepreneurial perfectionism
06 - Determining good enough
07 - Realizing the cost of perfectionism

3. Banish Impostor Syndrome

08 - Defining imposter syndrome
09 - Do you over prepare or procrastinate
10 - Your ego is the enemy

4. What Is Success

11 - Defining destination fixation
12 - Recognizing your accomplishments
13 - Living in the present

5. The Stockdale Paradox

14 - Defining the Stockdale Paradox
15 - Facing the brutal facts
16 - Cultivating unwavering faith

6. Achieving Balance

17 - Managing personal relationships
18 - Actioning FLOW

Conclusion

19 - Making an impact