Omicron Variant & Your Business 👀

Posted on November 28, 2021November 28, 2021 by brianjpombo

Thoughts on the how the Omicron Variant may affect your business.

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The omicron variant in your business.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

This is a show where we talk about business ideas, talk about tactics, strategies, and principles to help you in your business. I’m coming to you tonight, I have to talk a little quieter because I’m going to a house full of sleeping people. And so I’m holding this via hand. So it’s gonna be a little bit shaky if you’re watching it but hopefully, you’ll get the point.

I want to talk a little bit about the Omicron variant, right?

This is the new COVID-19 variant that is supposedly coming from South Africa and has all these horrible scenarios possibly painted around it. And just the announcement of it caused the stock market to drop.

First off, one key idea you got to get through your head when it comes to business if you haven’t already. But it’s good to remind one way or the other.

Fear is a killer of productivity. There’s no way you’ll be able to achieve anything if you’re scared. And so you got to you have to set even reasonable fears off to the side, you need to set them aside and think from a very logical basis.

Because if you’re going to be emotional about it, you’re going to end up making the wrong decision.

Once again, even if the fear is somewhat justified. I’m not taking a position one way or the other on this. I’m saying even if it’s justified, it’s better that you’re not scared. But that you realize, okay, there’s a situation where that might, I’m gonna let’s just talk about from business perspective, this might hurt your business, or it may provide an opportunity for your business.

This may hurt other businesses that in turn could affect you. Supply chains, everything else. All these things are possible, what you have to do is sit back and look at the reality of what is on the ground. And then sometimes what you have to do is kind of strategizing.

What are the possibilities?

Which way might things go and how would I handle it?

If they did, you’re not going to know for sure. But you can gameplay this a little bit and be able to work it out. The best thing to do is to talk about this with other people that you work with. Either people on your executive board or vendors or anybody that you really respect to be able to keep mainly a leveled head and ask the proper questions of you.

Because hopefully, you know the answers especially if you’re the owner or executive if you’re one of the people in charge.

The main thing is to keep your head because obviously it doesn’t take much to shake the stock market lose a little bit, and everybody running around with their hair on fire. This is common this will this has always happened, this will always happen.

What you’ve got to do is stay calm. Make a decision stick by it. Be willing to be flexible if conditions change, as we know they truly have over the last two years here.

So I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. That’s all I got for tonight.

Hey go check out my book, 9 ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business you can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com

You can just download it right onto your phone. You have a good one. We’ll see you tomorrow. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Embrace Transition

Posted on August 30, 2020August 30, 2020 by brianjpombo

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Brian discusses a conversation he had recently with a small business owner that is in transition because of the pandemic.

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Embrace transition.

Hi, I’m Brian pombo, welcome back to Brian J Pombo Live.

I had a conversation with somebody today that she’s going to be a guest on an upcoming podcast. And so I’ll review it again with you once it’s available. But she mentioned about being in transition right now.

Specifically being in transition career wise, not really knowing where to go, being that what she normally did was really abruptly you know, stopped by the whole COVID situation and everything. And I think this is across the board people are dealing with this I we were talking about last night, about like that this is a really good time to expand if at all, if you know where you’re going.

If you don’t know where you’re going.

Let’s go a little bit deeper into that. If you’re at a point where you know you have to keep going but you’re not sure where to go Next, the first thing you really have to do is is to embrace the transition itself. Embrace the fact that this is good, this is a good thing that you’re going in a good direction, that you’re going to find something that you weren’t expecting that you and it’s going to take you in a completely different way.

If you think back on your life, and all the sharp turns that you’ve made. And think of everything that’s led you to where you are now and all the great things that you’ve gotten from that, I think you’ll find that it’s pretty useful.

So if I think back all the way back 20 years ago, whenever I’m in one of these spots, and I’ve talked about these things in the past, I know just within the last week I talked about a point I was at in 2012 when I just needed something different to come and change and switch things up and it did.

And in 2020 something very similar. Excuse me in two thousand, something very similar happened. So I had moved out to Chico, California.

I was looking to I had this big ol massive plan that was based on a whole team of people that I was working with. The plan fell apart because nobody on that team follow through except for me. And so I found myself in Chico, California, where I didn’t want to be. I had no reason to be in Chico than I could see.

It was it was one of those things where I was going to school, I was working, I had everything taken care of. I didn’t know anybody, besides a couple of people that I moved in with that one person I knew a little well, his name was Chris, the other person I didn’t know at all. And so I got to know them a little bit, but they had their own lives going and everything else.

And so I’m in a town I didn’t I didn’t know anybody. I knew I had no idea why I was there. It looked like all my plans had completely fallen apart and probably would never come back together again. And they didn’t. But it was all for a good reason.

And something came directly to me and landed in my lap. I was a complete stranger met me at my place of work, which at the time was Barnes and Noble. So I was working both swapping coffee most of the time I was working behind the counter of the of the cafe there, where you oftentimes you’d see you know, Starbucks or something like that.

Well, we serve Starbucks coffee there.

That was my main place and every once a while, I’d be out on the floor and be doing stuff on the with the books while this particular day I happen to be out on the floor. a complete stranger came out to be looking for a certain book. We started talking and chatting. That conversation took me in a direction of my life that I could not have ever chosen for myself. For myself, it just happened. And it put me in a place to where everything in my life right now would not have happened.

Although all the best things in my life especially would not have happened, had I not accepted the fact that transition was coming and was ready when it came. I because I kept saying to myself, well, what if what if this goes somewhere? What if something like what if, what if this, something happens here?

And I met that gentleman, that gentleman introduced me, someone else who introduced me to someone else. And that whole situation change by life is something but you can’t guess it.

You just have to be ready for it. And it starts with saying with the big question, okay, what now?

What next?

Where do I go from here?

When someone tosses something in front of you, that seems like it might be right work, work with it. Follow the lead, see where it goes. like a like a detective trying to sniff out clues, follow the lead and see what happens. Because in my situation I, it’s so many of the major turns of my life. That’s how it happened.

And if you’re in that spot will suggest you just be open, be open to the next step. Don’t try and plan it, don’t try and you can try and guess what it will be, but you probably won’t have it right? If you’re if your lives anything like mine.

Hopefully that’s helpful to you. It’s something you probably already know, but maybe having somebody repeat it back to you is, is probably a little bit of help. I know it would be for me if I were in that situation. So also grab my book, go to AmazonProofBook.com.

It might help you to help kind of guide you in a certain direction. I have no specific direction that I’m taking you in. It’s there to help help feed something that you already have going.

So hopefully that would make a difference. too It’s a free you get a free copy AmazonProofBook.com we’ll be back here tomorrow night. Come on back.

We’ll we’ll keep the conversation going. If you have any questions, leave a comment. Send a message to me over at BrianJPombo.com you have a great night. We’ll be back tomorrow. Get out there and just let the magic happen.