I think the bike run featured in this clip is a great analogy for business. The guy racing through the obstacle course (who appropriately seems to be wearing a pinstripe suit) is always looking forward.
He goes through ups and downs. At a time he even goes off course, but at no stage does he look backwards, he just gets back on course and continues on. Were he to look backwards he’d almost definitely crash. There’s even a very difficult obstacle (with four legs) in his way at one point, but he continues onward, finding a way over it. At no point does he stop his forward momentum.
Too often, it’s easy to have an off-course moment, or an obstacle that makes you stop or look backwards. Forward momentum with constant adjustments works for our pinstriped racer… could it work for you too?
Kirsty Dunphey is the youngest ever Australian Telstra Young Business Woman of the Year, author of two books (her latest release is Retired at 27, If I Can do it Anyone Can) and a passionate entrepreneur who started her first business at age 15 and opened her own real estate agency at 21. Now Kirsty does lots of fun things which you can read about here. Her favourite current projects are Elephant Property, a boutique property management agency, Baby Teresa, a baby clothing line that donates an outfit to a baby in need for each one they sell andReallySold, which helps real estate agents stop writing boring, uninteresting ads.
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