How to manage your mindset when business is slow

Surely the scariest place for a business owner is when the phone isn’t ringing, clients are leaving, and you get that dreaded feeling….

“Oh crap….no one is buying these days. What am I going to do?”

We’ve all been there, and it just sucks! But there is a way out. In this article, I’ll talk about some inner game and mindset strategies. So know you aren’t alone if you have felt this, and that there is a way through it!

And if you are in that space of fear about money, the first thing you must do is to watch your thoughts! Instead of looking at what you don’t have or what you have lost, flip it to notice just how much abundance is all around you. Perhaps you have an abundance of beauty in your yard, or like me feel tremendous wealth in personal relationships. This is where the expression, “What you think about, you bring about” comes in. The more you focus on lack and fear, the more you will see and experience it.

Your number one job during these seemingly scary times is to manage your energy. We’ve all had the experience of having the desperate person in the bar hitting on us or the pushy car salesperson who needed your purchase to pay his rent. That ‘vibe’ can be quite repelling, so you must be vigilant about knowing that your good is right around the corner and stay in the positive mode of what you have that’s working right now.

Whatever you do, STOP the talk about what’s going wrong! If you tend to have those ‘woe is me’ conversations you can set a timer and give yourself a few minutes to get it out of your system or have your friends lovingly remind you when you go down that road, but whatever you do….don't feed the fear.

After you stop the negative conversations, the next piece is to look at the possible gifts in your life even if you can’t see them in the moment. Think of the farmer who has to have faith and trust that the seeds he planted in the ground he so lovingly prepared…will soon take root. That’s the task for you, my friend. Finding that level of faith.

So just to restate it, the mindset tricks when you get scared or they aren’t buying are these:

·      Stay in the day – don’t project into the future with fear

·      Focus on what’s working and expand that

·      Find the gifts so you don’t feel like a victim

·      Refuse to give in to negativity – shift your energy

·      See the abundance all around you and amplify it

·      Reach out and let people support/love you

·      Know there are seasons to everything, and this too will change.

Try these tips and let me know how it works for you. Mainly … don’t give up!