Finding Proof with Dr Tess Crawley

Great chat with Mark Drager this morning about business owners’ experiences of lockdown fatigue, decision fatigue, and anxiety around restrictions lifting. 

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What does BRAVE mean to you?  

I’m regularly challenging my business coaching clients to step outside their comfort zones and put as much faith in their abilities as I do.  

Needless to say, I often push my own comfort boundaries too.  What’s scary to you might not be scary to me, and vice versa. But it’s important to remember.

WE DO SCARY THINGS!  

p.s. Sorry about the audio quality! 🙊 .

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Be your “authentic” self. Show up in “authenticity”. What does this even mean?  

Too often I see professionals showing up on social media putting their best professional foot forward, but looking terrified.  

If you’re afraid to be you, if you’re afraid to drop the facade and just be, how will we ever get to know you?  

And if we can’t get to know you, how will we ever get to trust you?  

As I make some pizza dough tonight, let me share with you my thoughts on authenticity. 

p.s. Come join my free group in FB for small business owners and entrepreneurs in ANY sector. It’s called “The Brave”, because that’s what you are! https://www.facebook.com/groups/BraveNewNormal/?ref=share

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Steady as she goes. In the face of so much community anxiety, we need to remember our roles as “captains”. As we navigate these choppy seas, we have ways to do so safely. We might not know how long our journey will be. The navigational charts may not be clearly plotted.

But we have sails to help us move forward. We have a rudder to hold us steady. And we have an anchor to hold us safely in harbour when needed. As leaders and business owners we are captains. We can help ease the anxiety around sudden changes being foisted upon us ... by holding our own ships steady, staying our own course, being responsive not reactive, and maintaining our own wellbeing to stay for duty. Hold steady, Captain!  

Much love, Tess x  

p.s. Today I’m launching a new free group for small business owners and entrepreneurs in ANY sector. It’s called “The Brave”, because that’s what you are! 

Please come join our crew here:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/BraveNewNormal/?ref=share

Two years ago today I embarked on a solo journey to Las Vegas. It was a seemingly crazy decision to travel to the other side of the world for what was ultimately a three-hour event.  

The lead up to me taking this journey was just as powerful as what followed … and what followed was incredible.  

If I had not trusted my own inner voice telling me I HAD to take that journey, not only would I have missed out on all the good stuff that followed, I may never again have had the opportunity to prove to myself so resoundingly that my instincts are trustworthy.  

Sometimes our inner wisdom screams and shouts, trying to get our attention. But we don’t listen. Instead we override that inner voice and defer to “rational” thought instead. Lists of pros and cons. Advice from others. Ignoring our own instincts because we couldn’t possibly be right, right?  When was the last time you trusted yourself enough to do something that seemed crazy or irrational? Because sometimes that crazy irrational thing is the wisest move you’ll ever make. 

p.p.s. If you’re a business owner (even if you’re a solopreneur!), you’re a CEO. Here are my three keys to building your influence as a CEO within your business, outside your business, and within the broader market. It’s called CEO Creator: https://bit.ly/CEOCreator

Supporting small business. Supporting your business. Supporting you. It’s all one and the same, when you think about it.  

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In this conversation, Tess and Evan discuss strategies for becoming more intentional with your time, and how to structure your day in ways that better reflect what works for you ... and debate whether or not other people's strategies will actually work for you.

In this episode of The G&T Sessions, Tess and Gerda talk about the levels of fatigue and the struggles with motivation that so many are feeling at the moment. It's been getting to us too! We talk about business innovation and how isolation has challenged us all to do things differently rather than insisting on "the way things have always been done". Everyone is doing big days amid lots of stress and LOTS of juggling, so recognising the need for taking downtime is so important right now. Be kind to yourself. No judgement! Keep in mind what's reasonable to expect of yourself in these strange times that have no clear end in sight.

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When you’re used to being progress-focussed and conscientious, it takes a lot to pull your foot off the accelerator pedal. But sometimes that’s your smartest next move.  

In isolation, we’re all juggling. Juggling working from home and educating from home. Juggling the desire to go out with the need to stay in. Juggling the sense of overwhelm with the desire to just say “fuck it”! Juggling exhaustion with peddling faster to keep our businesses afloat.  

The most common thread of conversations I’ve been having with business owners lately is about this juggle.  

The first month of lockdown was met with panic in the small business community. How can I pay my staff? 

How can I stay open? 

Will this destroy me?  

And then we started seeing some of the fanciest footwork I’ve seen in a long time. 

Small businesses weren’t just pivoting, they were pirouetting!  

And now we’re starting to hit a wall. That constant push forward has been equal parts exciting and draining, as has the constant wobble of balancing on ever-shifting sands.  

Throw into the mix the need to home educate your kids? WHAM! You’re one step away from burnout.  

Lower your expectations within at least one area. Accept a little under-performance, compared to your usual standard. Be okay with resting.  And your kids won’t die if they have a disrupted education this year. They’re learning to be more connected family members, to be inventive, and to understand the bigger world in a new way.  

Go easy. You’re doing an amazing job, but you don’t have to be perfect!  

Much love, Tess x 

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 p.p.s. If you’re a business owner (even if you’re a solopreneur!), you’re a CEO. Here are my three keys to building your influence as a CEO within your business, outside your business, and within the broader market. It’s called CEO Creator: https://bit.ly/CEOCreator

In this episode of the Crawley & Drager Sessions, Mark and I talk about how we’re all adapting to these times of isolation and social distancing, what we’re noticing others do well, and how it’s working out for our own businesses.   

We talked about the courage it takes to pivot your business, including putting our ego in our back pockets for the sake of adding revenue to our businesses shout out to award-winning seafood restaurant Bacash, humbly pivoting to offer to take away fish and chips.   

There are some other gems in this conversation including Mark’s very clever recruitment strategy for his business, and how the Canadian education system allows parents to juggle educating from home with working from home in a really sensible way, shout out to homeschoolers who already know this ;-)   

Overall a great discussion. We hope you’ll enjoy it.