Coronavirus: How to Survive and Thrive During Massive Uncertainty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYZC3XZ9qhU With the threat of Coronavirus breathing down our necks, unprecedented social measures to stop the spread of the virus, and the tumbling chaos in the financial markets, it can feel like our world is fragile and fraying.How do you create a life and business you love in the midst of that?Our goal in this conversation is not to oversimplify the concerns at hand, pretend we can predict the outcomes, or dismiss the panic of a pandemic. But we all need a way forward, to move us out of fear and into confidence. Here's what Dan Sullivan, of Strategic Coach, has to say about these trying times: What’s important to me right now? Making sure to keep my confidence up each day.  Confidence is the ability to transform fear into focused and relaxed thinking, communication, and action. It turns dangers into opportunities, obstacles into innovations, weaknesses into advantages, and setbacks into breakthroughs. When you have confidence as a daily resource, you can learn anything, respond to anything, adjust to anything, and achieve anything. Dan Sullivan, Strategic Coach So how can you inject that antidote of confidence to the pandemic of fear and uncertainty? This episode will help you: Find out the real reason your confidence fails during hardship. Get practical ways to make money during the Coronavirus. And find out the simple action plan to get a life preserver in your health, but more importantly, your wealth right now. The changes in our environment require your leadership and courage in your circle of influence right now. The 5-Step Action Plan to Survive and Thrive in Uncertainty and Chaos 1) Take Care of Your Mindset The real reason our confidence fails us is that we allow the external crisis to shake our mindset, rather than requiring our mindset to direct our response to the crisis. “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”  Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning But abundance comes from your mindset. From your ability to choose your mindset and your response, regardless of your circumstances. At the risk of sharing something too personal, I read this in my devotions yesterday: Abundant life is not necessarily health and wealth; it is living in continual dependence on Me [Jesus]. Sarah Young, Jesus Calling This statement challenged me deeply, as I'd like to think that abundance is in financial security, vibrant health, rich relationships, and vivid purpose. But those things are all external - the result or outflow. I don't have complete control in those areas. What is most important is what's internal: my character, conviction, mindset, and response. That's where I do have control, and it's the most important thing we all need to wrest control of so we don't go off the rails. Abundance starts inside of you. It makes you creative and collaborative, expansive, and full of faith. The antagonist is scarcity, the mean, limiting taker that pits us against each other, wires us in anxiety, and paralyzes us in fear. None of us are immune. But we have to choose abundance to gain confidence, vision, and wisdom for how to respond. Spend time in gratitude. Read inspirational, soul-fueling books. Dedicate time to learning a new skill. Take a course. There are limitless resources and knowledge all around you, and limitless capacity for production. 2) Take Care of Your Health For me, this was a big one! I'll admit, I had a lot of anxiety about this when the world started talking about Coronavirus. Instead of ignoring the news and trying to rise above by focusing on what I wanted, I had to allow myself time to find the answers I needed. I needed to ask real questions and find my footing. How would I stay healthy?