Discipline Your Fears (3 tips to managing your Emotions)

If you found yourself feeling in any way restricted, had your freedoms cut right back in recent months and you often find yourself worried about what’s going on in the world right now, fearing global recession and worried about your business or income, then stay tuned.

In this segment, we’ll look at 3 things that will help you shift from fear to resourcefulness in no time!

#STEP 1: Pay attention to what you focus on!

The fact is that what we focus on becomes our reality and fast! The good news is that we get to choose that reality.

Now, you can choose to watch and read the news 5x a day and focus on how bad it is or you can choose to focus on spotting all the positive opportunities emerging during these unprecedented times.

Focus on what is within your control and let go of the rest.

Take one day at a time and do the best you can.

On the flip side — now we finally have the time to:

• start or scale that business
• find new ways of adding value
• find a passion project you never had the time to start
• connect and play with your kids
• write that book
• start that exercise routine
• the opportunities are endless if only we choose to see them.

#STEP 2: Stop talking about it. Full stop.

If you have nothing positive or informative to say during these times that would make an actual difference for others around you, stop yourself and rather say nothing at all.

No one needs to hear the same things that the news are hammering down on us day in and day out. Yes, stay informed but there’s no need to go into overwhelm.

This will stop the virus of fear from spreading and will help shift your mind and the minds of people around you into a more resourceful and solution-oriented state.

Plus, blocking the negativity will help strengthen your immune system too.

# STEP 3: Take action and get moving.

There are two groups of people in the world right now.

People who are terrified to their very core, feeling stuck and anxious and people who are taking a step back and trying to find the positives from all of this while taking massive action to be of service in whatever shape or form.

Yes, it’s true that things are far from ideal at the moment and that the world as we know it is changing.

However, what’s wrong is always available but so is what’s right and focusing on the later might make this transition a bit easier.

CHANGE AFTERALL IS THE ONLY CONSTANT THERE IS.

Our humanity has found itself staring at very challenging scenarios several times throughout history and somehow, we look back at those times and we get to be grateful for all the insane innovation in business, technology, medicine that has emerged as a result of those difficult times.

What’s happening right now is no exception.

One day, we’ll look back at this time as a time of resourcefulness and time, when certain decisions and mistakes have been made that we will learn tremendously from.

A time that has made us so much smarter, stronger, wiser and even kinder to one another.

The year 2020 has been coloured with fighting for our basic human rights, Black Lives Matter Movement, fighting for basic race and gender equality and safety, trying to show why practising our rights to VOTE has an impact not only on our lives today but for generations to come…

Despite all of this unrest and disagreement in the world, at the end of the day, as human beings, we are, at some level I hope, able to understand each other and relate to one another during this world pandemic and that is what makes this situation so unique.

You can choose to be a part of the problem and spread the fear or you can decide to be a part of the solution and look for WHAT CAN BE DONE AND HOW CAN WE TURN THIS AROUND TOGETHER.

We are all still free to make that choice ourselves and that will in turn also change our current reality.

In a year or two from now, will WE be proud of who we are showing up as right now?