Dave Wood

Be able to view it from the outside looking in.

Because when you're in the thick of it, it can seem overwhelming because you are in the red, a reactive state where you're going to have more negative thoughts, more self-doubt, and that feeds into your perception, your actions, and your outcomes.

So I don't know where I'm going with this, but...

Just, yeah, sometimes you've got to just pull yourself back because when you are in it, you're tying a lot of emotion to it because you care so much about the result.

You have to be able to pivot and adapt.

And if you, and this comes back to stress, if we relate this back to stress control, if you don't have good stress control, you can't make good decisions, right?

Good decisions come from you accessing your wisdom and having good mental clarity, and that comes from having good sleep and having good energy.

But if you're just burning it in the red all the time, when you go through stuff like this, because you're in a reactive state, it's easy to see, oh, this is happening in the economy, and it's easy to make decisions from a place of...

fear it's easy to see things as massive obstacles and setbacks but if you can create mental clarity and bring calm to the situation you can see opportunity in anything right I feel like the businesses that will do well are the businesses where you know the leaders have good stress control they're able to like come into situations with calm because calm is contagious

For the entire business, calm is contagious.

The person at the top is calm and making good decisions and is creative, accessing their wisdom.

That's going to have huge financial ramifications.

Decisions around what you're going to do in terms of revenue and income and finances, all that.

We all go through stuff in life, especially growing up as kids.

We go through really, you know, we go through trauma, we go through difficult times, we go through practical experiences that we perceive as being really negative.

And in the acute phase, when we go through that stuff, we put safety barriers up.

You know, they can be things like avoidance or anger or whatever it is to keep you safe in that short term, right?

But

Those patterns of behavior can ripple on to weeks and months, right?

And then those patterns of behavior become subconscious patterns.