Mindset Magic for Post-Covid
Editorial Article • Spring 2021
Members article published by John McHale Action Coach
Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can’t – you are correct” – Henry Ford
The very wise words of Henry Ford have never been more relevant than during the last twelve months. The Covid-19 pandemic has been many things to many people, not least of which has been a massive impact on businesses and business owners themselves.
Mental resilience has been a prerequisite to get through the last year and it’s not going away – not any time soon. The last year has been really tough – the hardest twelve months that most business owners have ever seen during their lives. Adapting to the new ‘normal’ – or however you want to describe the last twelve months – has tested business owners like never before. But adapt we’ve had to. In the equally great words of Charles Darwin,
“It is not the strongest of the species that will survive, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most easily adaptable to change” – Charles Darwin
Business owners have had to adapt massively during this last year, in many cases, just to survive.
Surviving, and the mental resilience to ensure we were still going to be around once the pandemic started to abate, has tested us like nothing before. And it’s hard. And it continues.
As the world starts to open back up again we have to be ready for what’s coming next. For some, it will be like a tsunami of new business, for others it will be diversifying quickly into new markets, for others it will be getting all their staff back. What is definitely happening is we are going to have to adapt again to the new ‘normal’ – whatever that may look like.
Working alongside business owners over the last twelve months has seen us major on mindset. We have worked with some businesses who have had almost zero revenue – a wedding venue, and a travel agent, for example – and yet they are still here, still in existence and ready for welcoming back customers new and old. Why? Because they never stopped believing they would be here (see Henry Ford above). Mindset will continue to play a massive part for business owners as move forward. If you need any help with moving in the right direction, give us a call. As the legendary Jim Rohn once said;
“What happens, happens to everyone. It’s what we do about it that matters”
What are you going to do?
About John McHale
John McHale is the Managing Director of a high performance, multi-award winning ActionCOACH Business Coaching practice providing external, impartial, expert business coaching to a diverse range of businesses in the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region. He works with successful, ambitious business owners to not only achieve abundance with sustained profitable growth, but also to achieve the life goals business ownership enables. He brings experience, education, support and accountability to help owners step out of the running of the business, see the issues and address them in a manageable, but successful, way AND his 1:1 coaching comes with a moneyback guarantee.
Contact John at www.johnmchale.actioncoach.co.uk