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Some thoughts on getting out of your comfort zone and trying something different.
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Waiting for the election or COVID to end?
Hi, I’m Brian Pombo. Welcome back to Brian J Pombo Live.
We’re all waiting for it to end, the real question is, are you going to continue waiting?
Are you going to allow these things to stop you?
Are you paralyzed?
Because, boy, if so, and so gets in there, or if so, and so stays in there.
I don’t know what I’m gonna do, I don’t know where my business is gonna go, I’m gonna wait and see what’s going to happen. And man, if they don’t open things up quick, or they don’t keep things closed for a while, I don’t know what I’m gonna do with my business.
You see, there’s always something.
We’re recording this and this is October of 2020. Right?
We’re this close to the election. And we’re this close to possibly having the COVID-19 thing eventually kind of tamper down, we’ll be at vaccine or whatever else is coming.
And a lot of people are holding things tight, I was speaking with one of my clients today. And she was discussing how people in the banking industry are seeing this phenomenon where people are just keeping their money nice and tight and secure, secure in a bank and not spending it, they’re not spending it in the bank, a lot of the banks don’t know exactly what to do.
Because they don’t feel like putting out any fresh investments. They’re not, you know, they’re doing everything they can to get loans, but the the interest rates are so low, that you kind of have the same people come back over and over again.
But it’s not to the volume that there is one thing. So it’s a very odd time, a lot of people are kind of in this paralysis there in this space, where they don’t want to move until they see something change until they see something predictable come about, okay.
I’m not going to sit here and talk to you about how you really ought to do something, how you really ought to get off your duff and risk something and do something and put yourself out there.
But we’ll leave that for another time. And you’ve probably seen me say similar things in the past, so it’s not necessary. What I am going to do is I’m going to give you something else to do.
Here’s the homework.
If you can’t see yourself, making a big move right now, I want you to game play this out a little bit. And this comes from being a strategist, a lot of what I do is in proper planning, really the whole thing is plan, do check, adjust, plan, do check, adjust.
All right now, if you’re not doing you better be planning. You’re saying Well, how do I plan? I mean, I want you to think about the main thing that’s stopping you.
Let’s say it’s the election. Okay?
The election can only go pro more likely a handful of ways, okay, there’s probably going to be one of two different people being elected president. And I don’t care if you listen to this five years down the road, you’ve got something in front of you that stopping you, I want you to do the same thing.
I want you to play out every scenario, I want you to brainstorm.
And don’t do it by yourself, get someone else to brainstorm with you get if you’ve got an advisor, your work with a consultant, employees, anybody who you trust, who you can have this type of conversation with get out whiteboard and have a black pen, or a or a big piece of paper and just write out every possible scenario that you can think happening.
Then pick out like the top two or three and then say, Okay, if so and so, if we’re using the election as an example, if so, and who wins the election.
What do we expect is going to happen?
What do we think we’re going to do then?
Let’s say worst case scenario, we don’t want so and so to win. So if they win in the just the worst possible scenario happens.
Okay, then what then what do we do?
Come up with the worst case scenario, I oftentimes, really encourage people if you are caught, by worry, you need to play out the worst case scenario, you need to take all your worst nightmares and put them down on paper and then figure out.
If this were to happen, realistically, what would I do?
Yeah, you’re never going to do exactly what you think you’re going to do. The whole idea is to get yourself your brain moving in the direction of progress. Get it moving in a positive direction, that’s what you have to do that the idea of planning is not so that you have a perfect step by step process for doing any possible scenario.
That’s not what I’m talking about, I want you to start thinking and out, the more you work it out in your mind, the more you game play, the more you visualize yourself going through the steps of doing what you know you need to do, but you can’t figure out quite how to do it yet, the more you can do that now, regarding the future, the more you’ll be able to move right now, or be moving a whole lot earlier than you thought you’d be able to move.
So in its own way, if you can do this, or have somebody walk you through that process, what you’ll do, unintentionally, is you will get things moving faster than you expected them to. And that worry that cloud that’s over you everything else, it will just disappear, dissipates. It’s a great trick.
But it’s not just a trick, it’s it’s all about perspective. It’s about pulling yourself out of the emotional moment, or out of the emotions of your mind and putting yourself in the actual present moment. That’s what it’s all about being in the present moment and saying, okay, where am I?
Where do I want to go?
How am I going to get there?
What are the things that are going to get in my way?
How am I going to get around them?
It never happens the way you play it out in your mind, it never will. That’s not the point.
The point is not to have everything perfectly mapped out. The point is to have no fear.
The only way you’re going to have no fears if you start confronting the boogeyman right now, start facing up to it. If you need help with something like that, hey, reach out to me, you can find my info over at BrianJPombo.om.
But I’m going to suggest another thing for you go check out my book. And you go and buy it if you want. It’s, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. Or you can go and get your own free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.
It’s all about being AmazonProofBook.com.
It’s quick, it’s short, it’s straight to the point I know give you an idea of how someone like me could help you through a process or it’ll spark an idea for yourself and you can go off to the races you don’t you really don’t need somebody like me.
But maybe you’d like help from somebody like me, just to help get your brain moving in the right direction. Sometimes it just helps having a sounding board is somebody to talk the ideas out of your brain. I know for me, I needed all the time.
If somebody just to help me, get these ideas out onto paper, map it out, so that I know what to do next. Because you can’t always work all that stuff out on your own. I know you’re a genius, but there’s only so much any one person can do.
Hopefully that’s helpful for you. We’ll be back here tomorrow we’re going to talk about another idea and strategy specific strategies that you can be able to survive today tomorrow and into the future.
You have a great night. Get out there and let the magic happen.