Top 10 ways to see if you’re using the economy as an excuse to avoid movement:

10. You hear yourself tell the staff; it will all get better when the economy turns.
9. When you feel that you can’t do ‘anything’, but wait for better days.
8. You’d rather sell out – than adjust and adapt.

7. You’re finding yourself or your team spending more time in ‘non-money making activities’.
6. When you’re asked to talk to the staff about ‘hope’, you’re stumped.
5. You may believe everyone else is in the same boat, doing the same thing, feeling the same way…sometimes fear loves company.
4. You’re looking at your retirement, calculating if you can retire before you have to fix the mess.
3. You can’t remember the last time you got excited about coming into work with a new idea to move the company/team/project forward.
2. Each day feels more of the same old, same old and you are getting use to it and worse accepting it.
1. It feels like it would be easier to QUIT vs. finding HOPE…but remember it’s all a choice.

Fear can paralyze the best leaders from creating hope and adjusting and adapting their game.

Mike and Jodi are leadership coaches, who have spent the majority of the careers in the trenches, now they find joy and impact helping other businesses adjust and adapt.