Finding Proof with Dr Tess Crawley

Brilliant minds and connection. 

How are getting your intellectual stimulation during these challenging and unique times?  

#ZoombieApocalypse 

p.s. I’d love you to join my Better Access & Beyond: Private Practice Essentials. For a $97 registration fee and just $5 a month ongoing subscription, I provide training, support, and resources for private practitioners. Here’s the link for more information:  https://bit.ly/BeyondBetterAccess 

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 

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Have you considered the role of nostalgia in your social media and marketing? 

p.s. I’d love you to join my Better Access & Beyond: Private Practice Essentials. For a $97 registration fee and just $5 a month ongoing subscription, I provide training, support, and resources for private practitioners. Here’s the link for more information: https://bit.ly/BeyondBetterAccess 

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

Today I’ve been working closely with a couple of business owner, talking about how they’re generating brave new ideas for their businesses. So proud of them!  

Then I was dictating the third chapter of my new book (can dictating the next chapter count as procrastination from editing the previous one?), and was talking through a homework idea for readers.  

So, sneaky you get’s to hear it first! It’s not a secret, but it’s a simple strategy that works for me every single time!  Walking mindfully within my “local village”.  

There’s a bit more to it, but I’ll let you watch the video to find out more.  

Have a wonderful weekend.  

Rest assured I’ll still be working on my book and aim to have chapter 5 dictated and edited by Monday! 

Now that’s a goal!!!  

Much love, Tess x 

p.s. I’d love you to join my Better Access & Beyond: Private Practice Essentials. For a $97 registration fee and just $5 a month ongoing subscription, I provide training, support, and resources for private practitioners. Here’s the link for more information: https://bit.ly/BeyondBetterAccess 

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

Business is a roller coaster, not a merry go round .

Here’s the lesson from today’s book chapter-writing exercise:  

You must think ahead, even in times of change. You must have some sort of vision for the future. You must accept that business is full of ups and downs.  

When you accept these things, and step into a CEO-style way of thinking, instead of being frustratingly stuck in daily operations, you’ll embrace the opportunity for innovation that has inspired so many creative small business owners during this time of Covid19.  

Challenge your own assumptions about how your business can function. Look outside your industry for inspiration. Celebrate ingenuity. 

And above all, #SupportSmallBusiness  

Much love, Tess x  

p.s. I’d love you to join my Better Access & Beyond: Private Practice Essentials. For a $97 registration fee and just $5 a month ongoing subscription, I provide training, support, and resources for private practitioners. Here’s the link for more information:  https://bit.ly/BeyondBetterAccess 

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 

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ANNOUNCEMENT... And it’s super exciting! 

p.s. I’d love you to join my Better Access & Beyond: Private Practice Essentials. For a $97 registration fee and just $5 a month ongoing subscription, I provide training, support, and resources for private practitioners. Here’s the link for more information:  https://bit.ly/BeyondBetterAccess 

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 

#businessowner #entrepreneur #psychologist #businesscoach #businessmentor #privatepractice #mentor #business #burnout #businesswoman

In this episode, Gerda and Tess talk about the criticism that some business owners face when making big business decisions. In these crazy times of Covid19, the need for business owners to be creative and to determine what works best for THEIR business has never been more crucial. Many businesses are doing an amazing job of this, and it's exciting to see just how creative small business owners really are. Unfortunately, we also see many business owners being criticised for making decisions that others might not agree with. We talk about how "playing the ethics card" doesn't make your stance right and someone else's wrong. At the end of the day, compassion and understanding and support for each other are more important now than ever before.

It takes courage to do what you do.  

Being a business owner means living with risk. Risking your finances, risking your time with family, risking criticism and judgement.  

So why do we do it?  Sometimes it’s passion, sometimes it’s “genetic”, sometimes it’s the thrill of the ride. 

Underneath it all, it’s because we believe in our mission (even if we can’t always articulate that well).  

And just as it takes courage to BE in business, it takes guts to STAY in business during tough times.  

So here’s to all of the business owners doing it tough, being brave enough to innovate, and putting it all on the line to keep going.  

I’m your biggest fan! 

p.s. I’d love you to join my Better Access & Beyond: Private Practice Essentials. For a $97 registration fee and just $5 a month ongoing subscription, I provide training, support, and resources for private practitioners. Here’s the link for more information: https://bit.ly/BeyondBetterAccess 

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

So we’re beginning to get used to being cooped up at home with the whole fam, movements restricted to only a few essential outings. Perhaps you’re still working in an essential role, perhaps you’re in hibernation.  

Let’s pause for a minute and ask “how’s your mood been?”  

It struck me yesterday when one of my kids dropped his bundle over the start of the new school term here in Melbourne (which, let’s admit, was a total shitshow) that he had been carrying a lot of stress, worrying about how school was going to look.  

All I can say is he’s still in his pajamas... 24 hours later (mother of the year!).  But what about YOU?  

If our kids are exploding with emotion, what are you holding in?  

I noticed in myself the other day that I just COULDN’T. 

I couldn’t listen to messages on my phone. 

I couldn’t look at my email inbox. 

I couldn’t look at comments or questions on my social media posts.  

I. Just. Couldn’t.  That night I had a teary outburst of my own. Worried about my grandmothers, both in their 90s, both living alone, both in Tasmania where I can’t visit. Worried about the northwest of Tasmania where two hospitals have been shut down and over 5000 people have been put into mandated isolation after an outbreak there. It’s where my father’s people are from. It struck a worried chord in my heart.  

But they were just the outside reasons for my mood, which had been flat for days. They were just the “excuses”.  The real reason was that I’d been burning the candle at both ends, and in the middle, trying to do all the things.  

I’ve just sold a business, but am emotionally very much engaged in its ongoing success. I’ve got business coaching clients, some of whom are worried about where their businesses are headed. I’ve spoken to more people who’ve been in tears themselves lately than I can count. I’ve got children stressed to the back teeth. I’ve got a husband who’s lost his job.  

And that’s before I even contemplate my own needs.  And that’s what got me wondering today about you. How are YOU travelling?

YES, YOUR YEAR 12 WILL BE DIFFERENT to what you planned. But that doesn’t mean your life will be worse. 

(And why your parents shouldn’t worry as much about your results.) 🔥 

I finished Year 12 with NO PRE-TERTIARIES. Not only that, my final report card listed subjects I didn’t even study!  Did I die? No.  No matter what happens this year, your Year 12 results won’t define who you are. They won’t dictate what you do with your life.  

There were many reasons why I didn’t complete any pre-tertiary subjects in Year 12, but mostly - just like you - it was down to an intensely stressful year impacting my ability to concentrate and stay focussed.  S

o I chose to just finish Year 12 doing the subjects that brought me joy - English literature and fine art.  

My journey towards becoming a clinical and forensic psychologist wasn’t a straight line. Neither is life.  

I did AMAZING things before becoming a psychologist. Things I wouldn’t have done if I’d just followed the Year 12-to-university path I’d assumed I would take.  

So, if your Year 12 doesn’t pan out the way you’d planned, it won’t be “the end of life as you know it”. It will be the beginning of your next grand adventure!  

So as you embark upon this next phase of your Year 12, remember it is just that: YOURS. Make of it what you want. Study hard by all means, if that brings you joy. Focus on the subjects you love, if that brings you joy. Do whatever you can to minimise your stress levels.  

And please. Try not to get too far ahead of yourself.  

One step at a time, my loves!  Remember, we’re all walking alongside you.  

AND DEFINITELY point your parents towards this post if it will help ease their minds too. They’re probably just as worried as you are. 

Maybe more so.  

Much love, Tess x 

p.s. I’d love you to join my Better Access & Beyond: Private Practice Essentials. For a $97 registration fee and just $5 a month ongoing subscription, I provide training, support, and resources for private practitioners. Here’s the link for more information: https://bit.ly/BeyondBetterAccess 

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 conversation, Tess and Evan drill down on what it means to connect with your audience during these challenging times of Coronavirus. How you connect should be authentic to you, but should also come from a place of empathy towards where your audience as at right now. Tess grills Evan on how he can up his game on this score!

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