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Is the “recession” just in our heads?

Yes and no.

Yes, there are crashes and losses and closings and such everywhere.

No, not everyone is experiencing this. Many businesses are booming, not busting, unless “busting” means a good thing, as in “bursting at the seams!” Brand new companies are opening now because of the shift in economics, what is needed and what is important.

The bottomline in all of life is that we are responsible and accountable for our thoughts about our situation and to shift them to work for us instead of against us . . . no matter what is happening “out there” or what the media is saying.

During the Great Depression and Stock Market Crash of the late ’20s, there were millionaires made and increases gained, but that’s not where the media and news stories focused.

“In describing today’s accelerating changes,
the media fire blips of unrelated information at us.
Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends,
without any model to show us their interconnections
or the forces likely to reverse them.
As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic,
even lunatic.”
~ Alvin Toffler

Where would you rather “focus?”

Here is a list of 10 Ways to Recession Proof Your Thinking:

1. Remember that you are a magnet. You are a massive energy magnet, drawing to you what you believe and think is true. What are you magnetically attracting to you? What do you want to attract to you?

This means, stop focusing on (magnetizing to you) what isn’t working, what others say is bad and sharing the same.

“Where your attention goes, energy flows.”
If you keep giving your attention and
focus to the negative and lack, you’ll get more of it.

2. Just as in “the best of times” bring your best self to your daily life and business. Be present and happy. Engage in your day, relationships, conversations, future goals and focus and choices from a place, space and mindset of growth, expansion, abundance and profit/prosperity.

3. Be grateful for your life right now. Don’t wait for “someday when” it gets better, when the economy changes, when the Stock Market goes up and stays up, when the media says it’s okay to breathe and play again, when . . . .  Live now. Enjoy now. This is it, right now! All we have is now.

“Where your attention goes, energy flows.”
If you keep giving your attention and
focus to the negative and lack, you’ll get more of it.

4. What to do you want? Keep your focus and attention on what you WANT, not what you DON’T WANT. What you DON’T WANT is FEAR based. Fear creates myriad reasons to give up, lose focus and lose your path to your best opportunities and outcomes. Decide on your desired results and stick with them.

Do this: Ask yourself, “What and how would I be thinking and acting ‘if’ everything was okay in the world?” Then, go be and do that. The more you think and live from this expanded-big-picture outlook, you’ll draw (magnetize) to you more of the same. You want to be pleasantly surprised! 

5. You want the best service and interaction from others, anytime and anywhere, right? Then . . . keep delivering the best service and attention to your clients, customers, family — and to yourself. Don’t pull back or pull in. Stay open and expansive.

6. Get creative! The “good times” can often dull our senses to our best and deepest creativity. “Hard times” and change can often be the best motivator for new inventions and creative bursts of genius.

7. Be the master of your “story.” If you consider what humans are, we are all just great story-tellers. That’s all we really do all day, all life long — we tell stories. So, you become the master of your story. Whatever you want it to be from right now on, you decide, develop it, tell and live it. Let your experience create a new, deeper and wider story of a stronger and happier you.

“People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

8. Stay “on purpose.” If you’re a business person, stay focused on “How am I going to deliver the best products and services everyday, at a good price and be happy and remarkable doing it?” This is what you want from others, right? Whatever you give, you recieve back.

9. Stick to your plan and transform it as necessary. Life changes constantly, sometimes in little waves, sometimes in massive hurricane crash and burns. That’s life! So, what’s your plan? Take time to revisit, create anew - or for the first time – your plan.

10. This too shall pass. If you look over life, yours and all of history, everything goes in cycles and shifts. That IS normal. So, choose again to engage and flow with life with more ease, less resistance; more joy, less fear; more fun, less “ain’t it awful.”

“The dogmas of the quiet past
are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty,
and we must rise with the occasion.
As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”
~ Abraham Lincoln