#173: Four Steps to Productively Process Disappointment
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Disappointments are a fact of life. The question isn't whether you'll experience them, but whether you'll use them to your advantage and get better because of them; or, be abused by them when they happen, and let them hijack your attention, focus, productivity, joy, and more. How we handle disappointments is key to living the game changer life, and this episode from Dave Anderson shares key steps to help you process disappointments productively and shift your thinking so you remain focused, energized, and on the path to unstoppable greatness.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all |
| 0:22.3 | aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson. In this topic, I want to talk about |
| 0:32.6 | four steps to productively process disappointment. Facts of Life happen to be that we're always going to have |
| 0:39.5 | disappointments. A disappointment really happens when an expectation we have isn't what? It isn't |
| 0:45.1 | met. And so disappointment ensues. That's really not the point. We're all going to have it. |
| 0:50.2 | It doesn't matter who you are. You're going to have a disappointment and disappointments throughout your life. How will you respond to it? How will you deal with it is what's really |
| 0:59.1 | going to make you different and better and help you progress or not versus those that are |
| 1:05.4 | using it productively. So we're going to talk about four ways to do it. You know, the fact is you can either process |
| 1:12.8 | disappointment productively and use it as an ally, or you can just stay in this disappointment cycle, |
| 1:20.9 | which makes you bitter, which can make you angry, it can make you unhappy with yourself and |
| 1:25.7 | everybody around you. The fact is if your |
| 1:28.1 | mindset is right, though, a disappointment will drive you closer to vital disciplines, to vital |
| 1:35.0 | processes, not farther away. Now, if your mindset is not right, disappointment can drive you |
| 1:41.0 | farther away from key disciplines and key processes that are going to make you |
| 1:45.0 | more successful. It can drive you into blame. It can drive you into excuses. It can drive you into the |
| 1:49.9 | victim's mindset. It can drive you into bitterness and anger and all these unproductive things that we go |
| 1:55.4 | through. And I don't care which of the four groups you're in. And you know what I'm talking about. |
| 1:59.6 | In my book, Unstoppable, |
| 2:06.1 | I talk about four different types of performance mindsets that apply to anything and anybody, |
| 2:12.7 | undertakers, caretakers, playmakers, and, of course, game changers. All groups have them. One of the big differentiators is how they use them or are abused by them. |
| 2:17.8 | And quite frankly, the game changer uses them far more productively. |
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