Are you feeling discouraged, hopeless, and anxious with the turn that your career has taken in this pandemic? If that’s the case, the time has come to shake things up! Who knows how long the coronavirus will keep beating our economy and our spirits?! Dear Readers, can you afford to put your life on hold until we have a viable vaccine, however long that may take? Or do you want to do everything you can to turn things around now? This blog is on a mission to help you, Dear Readers, get fired up about your future even in a pandemic, adapt to a new normal, and become a kick-ass productivity powerhouse who takes no prisoners!
Welcome, Dear Readers, and thanks for stopping by the JMS blog! The JMS team is back with valuable insights that will inspire you to be fearless in the pursuit of your dreams. FYI, JMS is a consulting firm located in Philadelphia that advises people and organizations on how to manage crises with efficiency. To that end, the JMS team is in the business of designing recovery plans as robust as possible that avoid behavioral and financial paralysis. Therefore, Dear Readers, this blog will help you make sense of these unprecedented times without feeling devoid of motivation and utterly defeated. You got this, Dear Readers, and don’t you ever forget it!
Between the 2020 presidential election and COVID-19, Dear Readers, your focus has probably been centered around the short-term goal to survive 2020. But, if you add managing the children’s virtual learning experience, losing loved ones due to coronavirus-related complications, and dealing with the constant threat of layoffs in your industry, your minds are understandably all over the place! Are you tired of suffocating under the crushing weight of anxiety or flat out depression due to the uncertainty the pandemic or what looks like a very contentious presidential election both ushered in this fall? No wonder, Dear Readers, you have been experiencing unbridled levels of anxiety regarding your career, life, and future! Can somebody say Amen?
So, the third mindset for success in a pandemic is to align daily actions to your values perfectly.
Before proceeding, Dear Readers, please take a moment to check out the first and second installments of this series as necessary foundational principles to today’s mindset as you build the most robust framework you can, given the unprecedented times we all find ourselves in most of 2020.
You know what, Dear Readers, when everything is going to hell, all you can control is how you choose to organize your dailies. You certainly cannot predict the future, so why waste time doing so and, in the process, raise your level of anxiety through the roof! Consequently, Dear Readers, this blog invites you to pour all of your energy toward managing your day with focus and efficiency. Don’t let any distractions take you away from the daily routine you must set to reflect your values and aspirations.
Fear not, Dear Readers, this blog has what you need to get out of your mind, leave your apprehensions behind, and boost your productivity to new heights even in this pandemic! Here are a few hacks habits you can start using immediately to channel your energy more effectively while cultivating the resilience most definitely needed to keep your eyes on your goals:
ONE – Manage your anxiety by keeping your values as the standard against which you measure every decision you must make professionally and personally.
Truth be told, Dear Readers, is that you cannot eliminate anxiety. But you can’t let it run your life either. Why? Because, anxiety breeds desperation, and desperation is a bad advisor. Consequently, this blog recommends designating a goal book (small enough to be with you all day long) that you will refer to every day to combat desperation effectively. In that book, you write the core values that are most meaningful to you and will essentially lead you to the dreamed life you have envisioned for yourself and your loved ones.
TWO – Plan your dailies faithfully and keep an accurate record of your progress.
Use your goal book to keep track of your ever-growing To-Do Lists and daily objectives you want to complete that align with your core values and therefore bring you ever more closely to your goals and dreams. Thus, your goal book acts as both a productivity catalyst and an accountability lightning rod that will propel you very far. And, more importantly, it will keep you so focused that you won’t have any brain cells left to flirt with anxiety or agonize over the unknown future you cannot control given the current pandemic that continues to ravage the nation.
There you have it! As always, Dear Readers, thank you for stopping by today. This blog wants to see you crush your goals even though 2020 has been such a wild year! Please share this post on Facebook and LinkedIn with your friends and anyone who might be struggling to see how to move forward. Comments are always welcomed below or by email at jms@branding24seven.com. Don’t be afraid to email questions or follow up topics you would like to see this blog examine further.
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Let’s finally get our lives together and be successful even in this pandemic, shall we? Keep fighting the good fight, Dear Readers, and come back next week for more doses of inspiration!
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