A Personal Message About Looking After Your Wellbeing And Your Business In Adversity

This episode is going to a be a little bit different, however I wanted to address the situation at hand. Things have been a little overwhelming and the world is now in a very strange and unique place. Although I don’t usually post episodes midweek, I wanted to have a chance to talk about what is going on and my thoughts surrounding the current situation. I’m also going to touch on a few personal tips when it comes to responding to adverse situations as a business.KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCASTIt’s important to mention that I batch content and in future episodes that I have going live over the next couple of weeks, there is no mention of Covid19, because at the time we didn’t know what was going to happen.Try to step away from your news feed as often as you possibly can. Although you can’t ignore it, spending your whole day looking at what is going on is going to have a negative effect on your mental health.Working on what you’re grateful for is a great way to help when there’s a lot of negativity around.Stay as routine as you possibly can, especially with the things that you can control. Wake up at the same time, eat dinner at the same time etc.In times of panic, people will turn to those that appear to be steady.Be gracious and gentle with people that may be struggling, especially when it comes to their business.You have to do what is right for your business in times of adversity.We don’t know how long this is going to last and when we return to a state of normality, you’re still going to need to run your business. Although you may not want to launch anything brand new during this time, you still need to think about how you’re going to maintain aspects of your business.Are there things you can be doing in your business that could help you in the future? Whether that means working on your SEO or scheduling your social media content in advance.If you are scheduling social media content, you may want to schedule it for a couple of months in advance, rather than straight away.Supporting your community around you is important.If you are running an ad or a campaign that you cannot change, don’t take your results too seriously. The world is in a completely different place right now and you can’t take things as read.Find new and creative ways that you can turn up for your customers.THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE…Remember to take care of yourself as much as you possibly can. Your health is incredibly important.HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN'T MISSMindfulness in Adversity – 04:20Your Business in Adversity – 09:30Transcript below Hello and welcome to this slightly different and unique episode of the podcast. Now you're probably wondering why am I releasing an episode midway through a week when normally every Monday is when you get to hear from me. Well this week I guess is a little bit different and I thought it was probably best if I come on here and have a really quick chat with you guys just to kind of give you a bit of a heads up in terms of a few thoughts I'm having and also in terms of things that I think might help you. So obviously, you know right now, no matter where you are in the world listening, I know we have lots of people from all over the world listening that the coronavirus, and I don't want to say the C word, but I've had to uh, has hit us with an absolute force.The world is in a very strange, unique place that it wasn't in a few weeks ago and I just wanted to, I guess like said, come on here and give you a couple of thoughts, but also give you some good positive stuff. Hopefully that will help you out. And I was really conscious, I didn't want it to feel like I'm jumping on the bandwagon, but like, so I'm doing this for a couple of reasons. Reason number one is I batch content. You know that I do episodes a few episodes at a time and I've already recorded episodes ahead of this one. And obviously in those episodes, I make no mention to the sheer fact that this thing's going on. So it didn't want you to think that I was so rude or I was ignoring it because I'm obviously not. But I wanted to explain why you might hear me not say anything or I might not reference it.And it's because we've had those recorded already. Well, obviously there's nothing sensitive in those. If I thought there was that might upset people, then obviously I would remove them. But they're just normal episodes of me sharing tips, tools, advice, and me bringing on awesome guests who talk about cool things. But the reason I wanted to do this episode is because basically I'm just gonna talk a little bit about it and then I'm basically gonna leave it and you're not going to hear me talk about it again. But like I said, I didn't want you to think that I was. So, um, what's the word that basically I just didn't want to talk about it or that I was ignoring it because obviously it's a massive thing, our business. So what I really wanna talk about today is how in adverse situations like this, how we can manage as business owners.And I don't think my advice is the most perfect and brilliant out there, right. Also didn't have anything to add from a, you know, what's actually going on in the world's point of view. I just wanted to reach out and say I'm here, you're my audience. I love the fact that you support me and I'm here to support you too. And I want you to know that I am around if you need any help with anything or if you're sat there worried about it. I just wanted to, like I said, just come on and have a really quick conversation about it. So there's a few things that have come up for me. As you know, I have been on a fairly, uh, I guess big personal development journey since having my business and I've talked about it before, but actually what it's done is it's really helped me out in terms of managing situations and this is boy's situation that we have to manage. Mindfulness in Adversity So let's just talk to that first and then I want to give you a few ideas of things you can be doing while things are different in your business, which that obviously going to be, no matter what type of business you have. So I guess the first thing that I want to talk about is about trying to keep in your own head. With all this going on now I am one of these people that will scroll through my feed aimlessly looking and reading and watching all this stuff, and you find yourself spending really valuable hours looking at the stuff. And actually for me, it's not worth doing it. It's not worth spending all that time. So I've made a decision to step away from the newsfeed and not look at anything that's particularly related to it or watch too much stuff. And it's not that I'm ignoring it.I will catch on the news maybe once, twice a day, but I'm not spending all my time looking through social media because obviously the media has a real problem of exaggerating and scaring and really kind of catastrophizing things. And believe me, I am not sat here saying it's not all of those things. I'm just saying that right now there's nothing I can do about it other than what I can manage myself. So for me it's more about knowing that all this is going on and being respectful and mindful about it, but also looking to myself and looking to things that I can control because I can't control the government. I can't control the news, I can't control the virus, I can't control anything in that case. So really sitting and panicking about it is not helpful to me. And like I said, that's just me.You may agree or disagree, but I just wanted to let you know that how I was dealing with it. So like I said, one thing I'm doing is I'm not going through my newsfeed as much as I have been because for me, reading this stuff just makes me more anxious and I don't want to be anxious about something I can't control. So then the second thing I, I do is, you know, I do it anyway, but I work even more on my gratefulness. So I really spend time thinking about what I'm grateful for and high very lucky we are, because in situations, whether this grave and this sort of worrying, we do forget that actually there's still an awful lot for us to be thankful for. And like I said, believe ma'am, I'm so cautious about doing this episode cause I certainly don't wanna upset anybody and I don't end up just think I don't care or I'm not feeling sorry for the people that have been affected by this or people that have died.But I just wanted to say that right now in my current position with my family that, you know, I think if we can work on being grateful for what we've got and concentrate on ourselves, then that's got to be a positive thing. So I guess that's the other thing I think about that, you know, it's a bike kind of trying to do everything as we possibly can, as normal as we can. Now obviously there's some stuff that we can't do. I've just had some events, councils, I'm not travelling to London, I'm cancelling something else towards the end of the week. And I'm waiting to see if my daughter's school's going to close. And obviously that's big impacts on us and and as business owners, that impacts us massively. But what I'm trying to do is stay steady with the stuff that I can control. So I am still getting up at the same time every single day.I'm still doing my morning routine. I am still doing my work. I'm showing up for my Academy members. In fact, I'm showing up more of my family members because they need the support right now. I've done this extra episode because again, I want to show you that I'm here to support you and I'm trying to stay steady because I think in this kind of the situation, not that I've ever been in this...