Stephanie Harrison

And that means that if a piece of work is not well-received, it doesn't mean that I'm

But if instead you think about it from a lens of what am I good at?

not well-received.

It just means that that specific outcome or that output that I did was not where I wanted it to be.

What are the things that make me feel joy?

What makes me feel alive or like I'm able to express myself in a specific way?

And it's that mindset that helps us to bounce back.

And you start making a list of all those unique gifts.

And of course, as entrepreneurs, life is just full of setbacks and bounce backs, right?

then you can start to become a fuller understanding of who you are as a person and then figure out how you want to express that outward in different ways.

We have to navigate that all the time.

And so anything to my mind that helps us to look at these setbacks that occur on a daily basis and say, hey, this isn't me and let me figure out a healthier way to respond is a really helpful tool and technique.

What happens if you lose your job or electricians are no longer needed or all of the technology goes away and you're no longer able to keep up with it for whatever reason, right?

One tool that can be a little bit difficult to put into practice, of course, because sometimes as an entrepreneur, your business can become very all-consuming in many ways.

It's putting all of your self-worth eggs in one basket, so to speak.

And so when I think about myself, even though I feel very proud of, for example, the work I've done,

And that's why it's so important is to expand your life a little bit.

And so if you have a hobby you've been neglecting or a sport that you used to do or a specific thing that you do with your kids or whoever, your friends...

I try to remember that that work is just an expression of me rather than me itself.

And that means that if a piece of work is not well received, it doesn't mean that I'm not well received.