How to deal with Criticism and negative feedback while growing your personal Brand

You cannot grow your Brand without being criticized and mocked. Don't live life on the basis of what others think. 

5 levels of criticism that you may face online

1. Social media comments - Ignore; Don't get effected by it. Don't take it personal, Grow up. 
2. Customer comments within community - Take the feedback seriously, 
3. Negative criticism by another influencer - Ignore and bless them if they are try to break you down, if you don't participate in the battle, you tear them down. If it is genuine take it really seriously, apologies and set right the context. 
4. Main Stream Media Criticism - We should not get into that level, it has to be seriously looked into.
5. Fall in the value system - Entire customer community tear the business down.

5 reasons why people criticize

1. Genuine Feedback
2. Envious and Jealous 
3. Failure - No personal results or result for students
4. Blaming nature, Dramatic. 
5.  Direct competitors - market share mindset

10 reasons why you attract criticism into your business and life

1. If you are not building your business on strong values - Monkey mind keep jumping
2. Not clear with your communication - More clear and transparent your are, things would be clear
3. There is no success rates from your efforts
4. Not consistent in your message and mission
5. You think about criticism and negative feedback - Think positive - What you focus on expand
6. Your product need to improve
7. You are not practicing what you teach - you need to have the skill, aptitude and attitude 
8. You are not processing your emotions
9. Your priorities are not right - It should be 1 .Mission -) 2. community -) 3. Me
10. Genuinely you need to improve as a person - Hurt people, hurt people - work and make peace with self. Acknowledge, accept and work on your flaws. 

3 types of critiques

Two types of people - Bees and flies - Bees irrespective of all bad around, will find flower and nectar and Flies how much of good around, will go to the poo. 

1. Jealous and Envious
2. Blamers and Complainers
3. Genuine and good hearted people with right mindset. 

Some of the best critics, give constructive criticism in private and praise in public. 

6 best ways to deal with negative feedback

Grow or Ignore : Respond - Ability to respond - Responsibility. 

1. Business is build on Criticisms and feedback, brick by brick. Use it wisely
2. Think calmly and address the situation. When your intelligence is high, emotion should be down. When you get triggered and the emotion is not in control. 
3. Keep aside Ego and take action.
4. Give better clarity with logic and numbers
5. Never bash any other person down. Even those who tarnish you. Give logic and numbers. When you throw negativity, it will come back to you. Buddha Story
6. Build a team of Leaders

The best way to grow your business in spite of criticism

Keep asking how can I help you.  It is part of the game. Keep moving forward, face it , overcome it. 

Thank you for the amazing talk. More power to you Sid.#IHLDeepLearner