The Best Economic Crisis Advice Ever!

Crisis, depression, downturn – no matter how you put it, the feelings the current situation generates are the same: fear, panic, pessimism. Stories of layoffs and closed doors hit us on every channel: TV, newspapers, blogs, email lists at work, water cooler stories of what’s happening in other companies. I won’t link to any of these stories, I don’t want to help the general depression feeling grow.

The best advice anyone can give you is not to panic and not to give in to feeling depressed. You might have heard this particular piece of advice before, but you should repeat it to yourself daily, use it as some sort of personal mantra. Why? Because panic makes you stop thinking and because depression keeps you from seeing the opportunities lying right in front of you. As we all know, fortunes do not evaporate, they merely get redistributed. No matter how dire it all looks, we are far from having no options at all.

I am not trying to say you’ll wake up tomorrow and it will all be gone, but there’s nothing the right attitude and positive thinking can’t solve. It will definitely be harder, everything is shaky and most of what you have planned will be postponed, but as long as we’re still breathing, there is a way out.

So tell yourself you’re going to have a good year in 2009, that whatever comes your way, you’re more than able to handle it and you’re off to a great start. For everything else, business strategy, marketing, PR, effective sales schemes, all adapted to an economic downturn, there’s always a search engine to help! Focus on the right blogs, and you’ll find the food for thought you need.

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  • Brad Shorr

    Hi Alina, Having experienced two or three major economic downturns, I can attest to the wisdom of your advice. Times like these can actually be opportunities if you position your business for success when the economy turns up – which it will.

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  • Alina Popescu

    Hi Brad! You are right, it will turn up, eventually and it’s best to be prepared :)

  • Robyn McMaster

    Alina, your focus determines your outcomes because, though we’re not aware of it, our brain responds to what we focus on in the course of a day. If it is defeatist, we are going to bed at night and rewiring our brain for the fears we keep thinking about. You can see how that works against us. Rather, we need to focus on the possiblities you suggest.

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  • Deb S

    Just stopping by to say Happy Holidays!

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  • Deb S

    Just stopping by to say Happy Holidays!

  • Alina Popescu

    Robyn, I always thought we can do wonders if we set our mind on what we want to achieve. I only guessed it, you explained it based on how our minds really work :) Thanks!

    Thanks Deb, Happy Holidays to you too!

  • Beatrice

    Great post, very insightful. I think nowadays, in the internet era, these crisis can weaken our mind sets easily and it is more difficult to keep up with a positive attitude when your computer, tv, newspaper, etc tell you daily that we are heading for a “worm whole”. :)

  • Alina Popescu

    Trisi, you are right. A constant flow of negative news can do a lot of necessary harm. It’s important for each and every one of us to remember the good things happening to us and to stay positive.

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