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This #FinanciallyFocused episode with #financialcoach #DenniseWilliams covers 6 areas where you can rebuild your life while in #survivalmode. #DuaneLueFung offers motivation tips in this episode to guide you. Here is our breakdown of the way forward. It’s a tough balance, trying to survive survival mode. How can we be selective about where we direct our time and energy, in a way that still somewhat resembles a well-rounded life? The answer is as much art as science, and it requires attending to the important pieces of our lives. And as the folks at Harvard Business Review state, “We are dealing with two contagions — the virus itself and the emotions it generates. Negative emotions are every bit as contagious as the virus, and they’re also toxic. Fatigue, fear, and panic undermine our ability to think clearly and creatively, manage our relationships effectively, focus attention on the right priorities, and make smart, informed choices.” What steps can you take to move to the next level of your life? If you feel stuck, we have some excellent ways to move the dial. Here are the action steps! 1. Do a self check. Where are you now? 2. Then write out your goals and dreams. Aim at nothing and you will hit nothing with dead accuracy. 3. Create a “What I am doing right?” Journal. This helps you to see what is going well in your life. 4. Learn the Holy Grail of Selling. Prospecting, presenting and closing a sale. This is for any business person. #DuaneLueFung of #ThinkGrowLead offers awesome tips on this. A defined sales process can help you do the right things right and know for sure what works and what doesn’t. Equipped with this knowledge you can avoid making the same sales mistakes over and over again. The long-term advantages of adopting a well-tuned sales process are plenty. Your sales team can: create and maintain long-lasting customer relationships, ensure higher customer lifetime value, reduce customer retention costs, get more referrals, increase sales revenue. 5. Create a money journal to help you get a hold of what you will do when you get back on track financially. Fellow financial coach Patti Fagan offers these financial journal prompts: *Is there a past money mistake for which I need to forgive myself and/or others? *Where in my life do I not value who I am with others by giving too much of myself? *What is my biggest challenge with managing money? How would my life be different if this challenge was resolved? * If I were to think boldly, what would I like my income to be in the next 12 months? How will my life be different as a result of earning this higher income? *Am I spending enough time on my relationship with money? If not, in what ways am I avoiding this key relationship? 6. Learn the motivation of push and the motivation of pull. The push and pull theories of motivation state that the desire for certain results comes from different directional forces, either a push or a pull towards the end goal. … Incentives are internal forces that pull us towards our desired goal. End goals can be both motivators and incentives.