Interpersonal skills determine how you may handle the economic meltdown. Your intrapersonal communication determines your interpersonal communication. Every one knows there is a worldwide economic melt down. What can you do to cope? Today, we shall look at inner dialogue.
Every action starts from a thought. Before you do anything physically, you would have done it in your mind. Before you go to Shoprite, you would have gone there in your mind. Before you slap someone, you would have slapped him/her in your mind. So the seed of every action is your thought. If you nurture a thought long enough in your mind, it will grow.
Positive thoughts enhance positive actions. Two young men were on a voyage. There have walked a lot of miles, and their energy is burnt out, but they wouldn’t give up. They kept their head up and focused on where they are going. At a point, they got to what seemed a dead end. There was a mountain, so big before them. It would take them about three days for them to get to the mountain top.
The first person thought he would die if he gets to the top of the mountain. He had two options. He would rather stay there until someone will come by to offer help, or go back home. The second man had a different thought. He saw an opportunity. If he gets to the mountain top, he would be able to locate where he is going with ease.
Two people can be in the same situation and have a different mind set. There are two classes of Nigerians. Some see the economic melt down as a dead end, while others see it an opportunity to learn and leverage. So where do you belong? I know that the stock market is down, the price of petrol in the international market is falling, and some people are having a negative cash flow. That is a fact. My point is this: There is opportunity in the adversity; there is a message in our mess; there is a
Our thoughts snowball into actions. One way to cope in this economic crisis is to maximize the power of a positive self talk. The solution to the economic crisis is not outside, it is inside. You have to work out your own desirable situation. Be positive. The economic crisis perhaps started fron the United States , and gruadually snowball into other parts of the world.
The Crisis will end. The Growth of the global economy, which is now being bedeviled by crisis, will rebound in 2010, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said in its latest estimates of the Economic Out-look for sub-Saharan Africa . The Fund, however, cautioned that global outlook and prospects for Africa remained "highly uncertain." The great depression of 1929 came to pass. It wasn’t forever. So the economic crisis can only come to pass.
Do not be worried. Be calm in your mind. Relax your muscles, do not panic. Be at peace from within. “Our greatest problem is that we think God is outside of ourselves.” Be strong; be bold; hold on because tough times never last but though people do.
I know that some have gotten their fingers burnt in the capital market. I know that some people have a negative cash flow in the form of debt. I know that the harsh weather of the economy at present does not encourage business activity. In fact some even have to borrow money to put things in place. Worst still is the fact that some people are in debt which they can not pay in their life time. So what do you do when you are confused?
Do not allow the present situation affect your behaviuor. You shouldn’t pour your anger or frustration on others. Learn to control your behaviour. You are not alone. There are thousands of Nigerians going facing the challenge.
Do not throw in the towel. I strongly believe that the only way one can fail is by giving up. If you have bought stocks do not sell. This is not the time to sell. Do not give up on your business. There is light at the end of the tunnel. There is hope at the mountain top. Can you develop the strength to climb?
Never give up on your dreams. It can only get better.
Agbolade Omowole runs Interpersonal Skills Trainings for corporateorganizations. He trains for Terry E. Gillen, Institute of Personneland Development UK.
He is also a financial adviser at Aims Asset Management Limited.
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E-mail: nigeriaslifecoach@gmail.com
Mobile phone: 08020777803 (+248020777803)
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