The crisis we are currently experiencing will become a defining moment in our lives and in the success or failure of our businesses. What has been your response to this crisis?
| Are you focused on the positive and what could be? | or | Are you frozen by the negative and what might be? |
| Are you looking for opportunity and what you can do to help? | or | Are you focused on what you have lost and commiserating the loss? |
| Are you looking to impact what you can control? | or | Are you focused on what you cannot control? |
| Are you focused on progress you can make? | or | Are you overwhelmed by problems with no clear solutions? |
| Is your mind racing to learn new skills necessary to emerge stronger and ready for the future? | or | Is your mind shutdown as you hunker down and wait for things to go back to normal? |
| Are you focused on removing obstacles in your way? | or | Are you frustrated and angry because of obstacles you don’t want? |
| Are you focused on creating the value people need? | or | Are you frozen into inaction because your cheese has been moved? |
| Are you striving to look around a different corner or climb through a different window curious about what you may learn? | or | Are you kicking and pounding on doors that have closed hoping they will reopen? |
| Are you focused on creating the value people need? | or | Are you frozen into inaction because your cheese has been moved? |
| Are you grateful for everything that you still have? | or | Are you obsessed over what you have lost or might lose? |
| Is your response to what has happened to make the most of this and find the good? | or | Are you looking for opportunity and what you can do to help? |
| Are you playing offense facing realities but taking advantage of opportunities? | or | Are you slashing and burning your way through convinced this will stabilize your life and your business? |
| Are you taking action every day to adapt and adjust to the new reality? | or | Are you headed for the hills and liquidating to save what you have left? |
The current reality is difficult. Acknowledge this and then move on. Get your head up, get in the game, and look for what you can do during this crisis to help others and prepare for the future.
The Man in the Arena
It is not the critic who counts, the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The Credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt
