The past 18 months have been an incredible experience for businesses worldwide. It is also an opportunity to harvest the good and look for opportunities. And sometimes, this means doing things that make you feel uncomfortable and stretch your thinking in a way that hasn’t happened before.

Our dairy farming business faced a crisis 5 years ago. With the drop in the milk price, we were faced with losing a business and family property that had been in the family for over 4 generations. I didn’t have the mindset that I have now. And my husband and I did fall into a hole for a while until we asked for help. It was time to dig deep, look for the opportunities, look at all the options, decide what was right, and then seek the people and resources that were required to stay in business; as this was the decision that whatever it took, we were going to make sure that we kept the farm.

Working with businesses to shift mindset over a number of years has highlighted how easy it is to get in harmony with the worst-case scenarios and stay stuck and even lose the business that you spent so much time building. No one really wants to give up on their dreams.“Bad news” is reinforced in the media day in day out. You might be looking at the physical results you are achieving (perhaps loss in revenue, the lack of money in your bank account, a lack of clients) and lose heart, be stressed, despondent, and at an absolute loss as to what to do. You can be in a place of being so worried about what you may lose that you can’t receive the ideas or see the opportunities that can take you in the opposite direction…

This article was published in Brainz Magazine. CLICK HERE to continue reading.