This is a great time to GET STUFF DONE!

Are you tired of reading about how this time should be SOOOOO productive for entrepreneurs? From every source you are being bombarded with 100 things to do during the shutdown? “Clean your closets,” “organize your supplies,” “finish your taxes,” “plant a garden,” “create a filing system for your office,” “renovate your home,” “sew masks,” “learn how to cook/bake,” DIY this, DIY that. It’s infuriating! It’s almost like the universe believes we, us entrepreneurs, have been sitting on our butts doing nothing until this happened. That’s not true…at least not for me, probably not for you.

There is a lot of fear and uncertainty in the world today. The COVID-19 virus and the toll it is taking on families, jobs, global economies, communication and recreation is broadcast on nearly every media outlet, if you care to listen. My heart goes out to everyone directly or indirectly affected by what’s happening. While we really have no experience in dealing with what we are facing now, we know other historical events triggered these same emotions of fear, helplessness and hysteria.

In times of chaos, it’s easy to become emotionally caught up in our outside circumstances. But even though we have no control of the world around us, we can control our responses to what is happening. We can adapt and we can pivot and we can shift to new things, or maybe we can just be thoughtful, and enjoy some downtime.

Decision-making is hard right now, since the future is so unknown. So I encourage you to be aware of the outer forces shouting at you to be constantly productive, and do what makes you feel good, feel accomplished, feel successful.

Let’s avoid being pulled in too many directions. Let’s avoid over-analyzing to the point of paralysis, or the negative emotions of overwhelm, that come from desires to “be productive.”