The Daily Helping

Today our expert guest is Laura Powers, an entertainer, celebrity psychic, actress, model, host, singer, writer, and speaker. She’s the host of the popular television show Behind the Scenes with Laura Powers and the top 100 podcast Healing Powers Podcast, the author of seven books, and has been featured on several national television channels and networks including Buzzfeed, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, The CW, Jetset, and more.

Growing up, Laura knew there was something different about her — she could see dead people. Other people didn’t see what she did, so she grew up trying to ignore what she was sensing and not tell anyone about it. As she grew older, her abilities only got stronger, to the point where she could no longer block it out.

In college, a family friend described a ghost that Laura had seen but never told anyone about. This confirmed to her that what she was seeing was real, and she then had to start deciding what she was going to do with this ability. She learned that, as she had been blocking out her abilities, she was also blocking out her intuition. She started taking classes to develop her psychic abilities and tapped into her creative work more, and eventually transitioned her business and lifestyle into being a psychic.

During this global pandemic we’re all facing, everyone is being expected to go within and sit with ourselves. Looking within ourselves and using mindfulness practices such as meditation to check in on what thoughts we are thinking is important to keep down stress levels.

When Laura recognized how deeply connected the mind, body, and spirit are, she wanted to learn more about that connection and share it with the world. In her podcast, Healing Powers Podcast, Laura talks about the ways different parts of our body, spirit, and mind all interplay and affect each other.

If you are facing challenges in one area of your life, don’t focus on just that one area. Your mental state affects your physical state, which affects your spiritual state. They are all connected, and in order to see truly effective and lasting change, you need to address them all. And that lasting change is possible if you just look beyond the individual problems you are trying to face and start aiming even higher.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are way more powerful than you think, and you can have more. For me, what happened during the recession was everything that was taken away from me — my marriage, my house, the way I made my living, my state of health at the time — I perceived to be a bad thing when I was going into it, but everything that was taken away was because there was something better for me. Sometimes I think we don’t even realize how great we can have it. We’re aiming here when we need to aim way up here. Miraculous transformations are possible for whatever you’re feeling, whether it’s health issues or economic challenges or maybe you want to be a singer or do whatever you want to do. Don’t feel like it’s too late.”

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Resources:

• Learn more: www.healingpowers.net
• Podcast: www.healingpowers.net/podcast
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/laurapowers44
• Read: "An End to Upside Down Thinking"

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Today our expert guest is Corey Blake, the founder and CEO of Round Table Companies, publisher of Conscious Capitalism Press, as well as a speaker, artist, and storyteller. He’s won 15 independent publishing awards and has been featured on the cover of The Wallstreet Journal as well as inside The New York Times, USA Today, Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and Wired.

Corey’s work has always been about helping people — and now the world needs that help more than ever. Since 2018, he has been working with PayActive to solve the paycheck-to-paycheck crisis that is hitting America. When the coronavirus started to hit the US, many people who were already living paycheck-to-paycheck were getting hours reduced or losing their jobs. When he saw how this was impacting the world, he knew that this was an area that he needed to contribute to more.

Talking with people during the crisis, he started to notice some themes that have rippled through the different communities he interacts with. Amongst younger entrepreneurs, there was a quick reflex to save themselves: lay off employees quickly and mercilessly in order to stay afloat. Meanwhile, in the conscious capitalism community (in which Corey is a pillar member), there has been a tremendous amount of compassion for the workers.

When Corey was still in the space of not knowing how to be of service to the community, he took part in a call for a leadership academy and it finally clicked. He started offering vulnerability art installations at conferences and events that were all about taking people from isolation to connection, and they worked. When you look at one of these vulnerability walls, all the anxiety about how different people are melts away; we realize we are all fragile individuals who are dealing with problems.

Almost nobody alive has ever lived through something like this in their lifetime, and we don’t know when it’s going to end or what life will look like on the other side of it. That often forces us to sit with our thoughts, think about who we are today, and rediscover our identity. Corey offers some strategies people can use to purposefully find their new identity and make sense of their place in this:

• Finding your purpose is usually done over a longer period of time. It requires constant investigation, a relentless state of inquiry, and awareness is essential for picking out that purpose. Watching ourselves from the outside throughout this crisis is incredibly helpful. If you can watch yourself as an observer, it’s easier to extend some grace.
• Ask different questions: Who is that version of me that’s showing up? What else is available? What is the universe saying to me?
• List all of the things your company does or owns and decide if the world needs those differently than how you usually utilize them.

If you want to take action but you don’t know what to do, this is the work that has to be done. Sit with yourself and ask good questions. And if you find something that you can do, you need to start putting it into action right away. The world needs what you can provide.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Extend ourselves some grace right now. Be kind to ourselves. We’re all having experiences we’ve never had before, probably at a compounding ratio that can be so overwhelming. We can be unkind in moments. We can be super judgemental in moments. We can want to come to blows with our spouse or our kids or our animals as we’re all cooped up together. Ultimately, the more we can extend kindness and grace to ourselves as we go through this, the more we will do so outwardly.”

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Resources:

• Learn more: roundtablecompanies.com
• Purpose Worksheet: roundtablecompanies.com/purpose
• Art Installation: unitedbycovid.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/coblake

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Today we continue our conversation with expert guest John O’Leary. As a reminder, he is an international best-selling author and host of the top-10 podcast Live Inspired. John helps people live amazing, inspired lives, and what he has to say is so timely during this period of time. There is so much pain, fear, and uncertainty in the world right now, but with John’s help, we’ll be better able to work through those feelings.

Last week we touched on three of the five senses we have as children but lose as adults, as explained in John’s book, In Awe. Those three are wonder, expectancy, and immersion. The final two senses are:

• Belonging: Kids say things that are seemingly inappropriate, but they will connect authentically afterward. They cut through the arbitrary things that divide us and remind us that we are one.
• Freedom: If you don’t feel like you are enough, and you don’t feel like you are worthy, then you’re not free to give back to the world the gifts that you’ve been given.

As little ones, most of us have perfect eyesight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell — but as we age, we begin to lose those senses. We also lose the senses of wonder, expectancy, immersion, belonging, and freedom. And although we can’t stop the toll of time on our physical sense, we don’t have to lose any of these other senses — we can return to each and every one of them. In Awe is not only a reminder of what it felt like to have those senses but a blueprint for returning to them.

In the time we are facing now, don’t refuse the lessons you are being taught. This too shall pass. We’re all enduring this storm, every country in the world. As the world begins to return to normal, don’t allow the lessons that we have learned to disappear as well.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The coronavirus will shake us, it will scare us. It might erase some of our life savings, and it might change what some of us do professionally. But it can also wake us up to see life as this interconnected piece that we all move through life as one. Enter into your day with a sense of awe.”

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Resources:

• Learn more: johnolearyinspires.com
• Read: In Awe
• Listen: Live Inspired
• John O’Leary on Facebook
• John O’Leary on LinkedIn
• John O’Leary on Twitter: @JOLearyInspires
• John O’Leary on Instagram: @johnoleary.inspires
• John O’Leary on Pinterest
• John O’Leary on YouTube
• Ep. 75: A Life Lit From Within | with John O’Leary

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Today our expert guest is John O’Leary, international best-selling author and host of the top-10 podcast Live Inspired. John helps people live amazing, inspired lives, and what he has to say is so timely during this period of time. There is so much pain, fear, and uncertainty in the world right now, but with John’s help, we’ll be better able to work through those feelings.

While John was sharing his story across the country, he noticed some extreme differences between speaking to adults and speaking to children. With adults, he would ask a question and get one or two hands up to answer. With kids, he would get every hand in the room. Kids are unabashedly willing to ask questions, but as adults, we stop asking questions. As he dropped his own kids off at school and saw them sprint into the school building, he wondered — “When was the last time I ran anywhere?” 

Kids run into life — and. as adults, we lose that.

In his new book, In Awe, John unpacks the five senses that we used to have as children but that most of us lose as adults. The first of those senses are:

1. Wonder: Kids ask questions all the time, but as we get older we get told to stop asking questions and to just follow orders.
2. Expectancy: Every experience a kid has for the first time is amazing. We can live life with the expectation that things are going to be awesome, and they will be.
3. Immersion: Whatever kids do, they are hyper-focused on that activity, while adults are focused on multitasking.

There is so much more to this that we can’t cover all of it here, but John will be back next week to go over the last two of the senses we lose and, most importantly, what we can do to help reclaim them.

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Resources:

• Learn more: johnolearyinspires.com
• Read: In Awe
• Listen: Live Inspired
• John O’Leary on Facebook
• John O’Leary on LinkedIn
• John O’Leary on Twitter: @JOLearyInspires
• John O’Leary on Instagram: @johnoleary.inspires
• John O’Leary on Pinterest
• John O’Leary on YouTube
• Ep. 75: A Life Lit From Within | with John O’Leary

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Today our expert guest is Jared Kleinert, a serial entrepreneur, TED speaker, and award-winning author who USA Today named the “most connected Millennial.” He’s also the author of 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World. His work profiles seemingly superhuman young people who have founded companies collectively worth billions of dollars, such as WordPress, Duolingo, General Assembly, and more.

He is also a social media influencer with followings in the tens of millions, featuring film producers and leaders across diverse industries ranging from virtual reality to lunar settlements. As a highly sought-after keynote speaker and consultant, his clients include Facebook, Samsung, IBM, Cornell, Berkely, Adage, and more. His insights on entrepreneurship and networking have been featured in major media publications such as Forbes, Time, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Fox Business, and more. He is committed to building the world’s top Millennial-led network of super connectors and subject matter experts.

Early in his career, Jared learned from some of the world’s top experts on networking and relationship building. At a company called 15Five, he was mentored by “the most connected man you don’t know in Silicon Valley,” according to Forbes. After that, he started a marketing consulting firm where his first client was Keith Ferrazzi, author of the modern-day networking classic Never Eat Alone. Between those two mentors and his work interviewing some of the world’s smartest, most talented Millennials, he became someone who was very well connected — and that became his differentiated skillset in the marketplace.

As someone who has dedicated his career to researching successful Millennials, Jared has a clear grasp of how they tend to be different in the workplace. He has noticed, at a high level, a 3-step process they have followed to achieve success in record time. 

These are the three things most successful Millennial entrepreneurs are doing:

• Putting themselves in a position to be exponentially successful by experimenting.
• Building their own distribution network or following to give direct access to the people you want to serve.
• Out-collaborate the competition. By working with others, you extend your reach to share innovative ideas with as many people as possible.

We are facing more problems today than ever before and they are growing exponentially in severity. As individuals, we have access to technology and platforms that give us abilities equal to what only governments, massive corporations, or the wealthiest individuals would have had 100 years ago. If we can come together and take advantage of the tools and technologies available to us, we can achieve incredible things and change the world.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“We all have the power now that only governments, corporations, and the uber-wealthy had just a few generations ago. If you’re listening to this and you’re wondering how to navigate through trying times and this difficult period we’re all faced with right now, then think about how you yourself can level up, upskills, whatever the phrase is you want to use. Find your passions and explore those. After you do that, then think about where you can experiment and innovate, whether that’s launching a new business, doing a different business model with your current business, now is the perfect time to experiment. If the playbook was out the window before, now we have institutions that are really hurting and we’re looking for creative solutions to all sorts of problems right now. Now is a great time to experiment, build your own network, build your own following so that if and when you stumble on something important and meaningful you have people to share those ideas with, and be open to collaborating with others because that’s where these true breakthroughs are going to come from. And if we can catalyze as many of these meetings of the minds as possible, I think we’ll all survive.”

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Resources:

• Meeting of the Minds: motm.co
• Read: 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World
• TED Talk: Why millennials today hold more power than ever before
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaredkleinert
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/jared.kleinert
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaredkleinert

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Today our expert guest is Mike Robbins, the author of five books including his newest title, We’re All in This Together: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging. For the past 20 years, he’s been a sought-after speaker and consultant who delivers keynotes and seminars for some of the top organizations in the world.

Mike grew up playing baseball as a kid and was drafted by the Kansas City Royals. He was working his way up through the minor leagues before he tore a ligament in his elbow that signaled the end of his career. While this was personally devastating, Mike came to notice two things during that time: It wasn’t always the most talented people that were the most successful and it wasn’t always the most successful people that were the happiest or most fulfilled. He erroneously thought that it was a sports thing until he entered the world of business.

Mike started his consulting business 20 years ago with an obsession — wondering what it takes for us to turn our talent into success, then our success into fulfillment, and then, collectively, how we can come together as a group and achieve something extraordinary. That’s been the subject of his past books, all culminating in the release of his latest title, We’re All in This Together.

There are four pillars that contribute to strong teams working together:

1. Psychological Safety. Trusting the group and knowing that you have the opportunity to speak up or make mistakes without being shamed or kicked out.
2. Inclusion and Belonging. Belonging isn’t just a feel-good thing. It’s a fundamental human need. We need to create an environment where team members feel like they belong.
3. Having Sweaty-Palm Conversations. If you lean into uncomfortable conversations, they are going to make it easier to connect, collaborate, and grow trust.
4. Care About and Challenge Each Other. If we don’t care about each other, we can’t push each other and challenge each other. If we push without caring, people get defensive. If we care without pushing, we won’t do anything extraordinary. You need both at the same time.

If your team can embody these four pillars, you can learn to work together, trust each other, and achieve extraordinary things. In times like this, now more than ever, we need to learn to work together and do something incredible.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You’re living your life as if you’re trying to survive it. Nobody ever has. Stop trying to protect yourself, stop trying to not fail, stop trying to not be comfortable, stop trying to just survive. Your job is to lean into this experience as fully as you can and see what happens. It’s okay if we get scared, it’s okay if we get uncomfortable, but our job isn’t to get through life unscathed.”

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Resources:

• Learn more: mike-robbins.com
• Read: We’re All in This Together: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging
• Facebook: facebook.com/mikerobbinspage
• Instagram: instagram.com/mikedrobbins
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mrobbins
• Twitter: twitter.com/mikedrobbins

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Today our expert guest is Brant Pinvidic, an award-winning film director, veteran television producer, #1 best-selling author, C-level sales and presentation coach, keynote speaker, top-rated podcast host, and columnist for Forbes. He’s been named to the Hollywood Reporters 30 most powerful reality TV sellers and is widely recognized as one of the great creative sales leaders in Hollywood.

In his #1 best-selling book The 3-Minute Rule, Brant has taken the life, business, and storytelling lessons he’s developed during his Hollywood career and used them to uniquely bridge the entertainment industry and the business community. He specializes in helping others simplify their message, and his endless energy, quest for adventure, and The 3-Minute Rule have helped make him one of the most sought-after C-level consultants in the USA and abroad.

Brant grew up as an entrepreneur in Canada and he struggled to get his ideas going. Raising money for businesses in Canada was so trying that Brant had developed the important skill of being able to convince people and pitch his ideas without sounding desperate. Eventually, Brant became known for his ability to sell ideas and he transitioned into helping companies with their pitches. He saw the frustration in people who believed in their message so strongly but didn’t know how to communicate that properly, and that’s where the idea for the book The 3-Minute Rule came in.

The 3-minute rule says that everything about your business, product, or service must be conveyed clearly, concisely, and accurately in three minutes or less. You have to be able to capture and maintain your audience’s attention and you have to illustrate value. After that, your opportunity will absolutely plummet. You need to build a story like a Hollywood screenwriter so you can lead your audience through their decision to show interest or shut it down.

One of the breakthrough ideas from the book is what Brant calls the WHAC method:

• What is it? Be literal.
• How does it work? The function of it.
• Are you sure? Use facts, figures, and logic to back that up.
• Can you do it? Talk about costs, next steps, and time frames.

These four questions line up with the natural order that humans make decisions. When you match your pitch to this natural process it becomes obvious to the audience what they want. People crave clarity and, when you can give your pitch in a clear and concise manner, they will be drawn to it.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The simplification of what you need to convey is the most important thing in the market today. The more words you use, the less effective you’ll be.”

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Resources:

• Learn more: www.brantpinvidic.com
• The 3-Minute Rule
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/thebrantpinvidic
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/brantpinvidic
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/brantpinvidic
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/brantpinvidic

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Today our expert guest is Alain Hunkins, author of Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders, is a sought-after speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach. Over his 20-year career, he has led over 2000 groups in 25 countries, with clients such as Walmart, CitiGroup, State Farm, Microsoft, and more.

Alain has designed and facilitated seminars on numerous leadership topics, including team-building, conflict management, communication, peak performance, engagement, and change. He also served on the faculty of Duke Corporate Education and has published over 400 articles on leadership.

Understanding why people do what they do has always driven Alain for as long as he can remember. He was raised by a single mom and his grandmother who were both holocaust survivors. Their view of the world was profoundly changed through that experience and it impacted how they raised Alain and his brother. He realized how different his life and experience at home was compared to that of school or his friends, and he was drawn to understanding people in order to make sense of his own experiences. Leadership is all about people, so this path inevitably led to Alain studying and deconstructing leadership of all types.

There are certain patterns of behavior that show up with successful and mediocre leaders. No leader intends to be mediocre — they’re just using an outdated playbook from the beginning of the industrial revolution. The difference between leaders that flounder and the ones that thrive is a shift in mindset. As Alain puts it, “Do you think that your job is to be in charge or do you see your job as to serve the people who are in your charge?”

Alain had been blogging on the topic of leadership for a few years until suddenly he had hundreds of posts. He looked back on them and started to notice the common themes, and those eventually became the chapters for his book. That book was Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders, and those three secrets are Connection, Communication, and Collaboration:

• Connection: Empathy is a primary leadership skill, helping people understand that you see their perspective and know how they feel. At its core, leadership is a relationship between leader and follower, and we need to take the time to cultivate that relationship.
• Communication: The greatest challenge with communication is that we have the illusion that it has taken place. We unconsciously assume that others have the same thoughts that we do. The goal of communication is to create understanding, and a great way to do that is to ask for a receipt — that is, ask for them to repeat back what they think they heard.
• Collaboration: As leaders, we can’t force people to be motivated. What we can instead do is create conditions or environments where motivation is more likely to occur. One simple thing we can do to help keep up energy is to give breaks during extended meetings. We need to change it up or we can’t possibly focus, even if we want to.

Leadership is constantly shifting. We need to recognize that leadership as a practice is moving on from the role of micromanaging and control and moving into the role of facilitating and helping others.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If you want to grow as a leader, find people that will give you honest feedback about how you show up. There is nothing that will accelerate your leadership growth more than honest, timely feedback from someone else. That is if you take it and act on it. Seek out feedback, because if we’re not growing we’re not advancing, and feedback is the catalyst to growth.

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Resources:

• Learn more: www.alainhunkins.com
• Read: www.crackingtheleadershipcode.com
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/alainhunkins

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Today our expert guest is Tommy Breedlove, best-selling author of the book Legendary and an internationally-recognized business, relationship, and mindset coach. Tommy started his 20-year corporate career at one of the largest financial consulting firms in the world and eventually became a shareholder, the International Practice Leader, and a member of the board of directors for one of the largest public accounting and financial firms in the southeast U.S.

At the top of his career, Tommy experienced a transformational moment inspiring him to walk away from the corporate world to change his life and follow his true calling. Now Tommy serves clients and audiences everywhere by empowering them to build and live legendary lives.

Tommy grew up in a small town in south Atlanta where he intended to be the first person in his family to graduate from college. He grew up around a lot of violence — both inside and outside the home — and this led to him, unfortunately, becoming the violence he hoped to escape. At the age of 18, with scholarships lined up, he committed a violent crime and was, instead of four years of college, looking at seven years in prison. He ended up sentenced to two years and met the first mentor he ever had while serving that sentence.

With the guidance of that mentor, he was able to get a job at a nuclear waste container factory while putting himself through community college at night, eventually graduating from the University of Georgia and getting a job at Deloitte, one of the largest financial consulting firms in the country. Fast forward to 36-years-old at a different firm, Tommy looked like he had it all. But on the inside, he was crumbling. He woke up in the streets of downtown Atlanta wondering where his car and half of his clothes were.

This led to a journey of self-discovery, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physically. Through that process, he discovered who he was, what he stood for, and where he was going. By taking off all of the masks he had been hiding behind — tough guy, important guy, cool guy — and just being Tommy, the most remarkable things happened in his career and his life. His marriage became the best it ever was, his network increased exponentially, his friendships became stronger, the negative people in his life started falling away, and he advanced professionally remarkably fast. When he finally got to the top of the game, he knew there was still something bigger for him, so he decided to teach what he had learned over the last few years and channel that into mindset, relationship, business, and money coaching.

For somebody who feels like they have it all but isn’t fulfilled, how do you figure out how to find that thing that inspires you? You need to do some deep, deep work to discover your purpose and investing fully into yourself. Now is the time to start developing certain skills:

• Establish financial competence and credit card management
• Build your mind and heart muscles with gratitude, meditation, surrounding yourself with positive people
• Life-long learning through books, podcasts, and courses.

Tommy’s book, Legendary, was a three-year fistfight of trying to figure out the best way to share the message he wanted to spread to the world. And finally, it hit him: Write the playbook of simple stories and simple tactics that people can put into their life and will make a difference within 30 days of implementing in their life. It’s the same strategies that he deployed in his own life. If you can find a way to take your God-given talents and make use of them every day to make this world a better place, you will never feel like you work a day in your life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Are you ready to stop living your story and start living your life? If you’re not happy with where your life is now you can write the end to your story by stepping in and leaning up. It’s time to participate in your own rescue.”

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Resources:

• Learn more: tommybreedlove.com
• Free gift: tommybreedlove.com/gifts
• Instagram: instagram.com/tommybreedlove
• Twitter: twitter.com/TommyBreedlove
• Facebook: facebook.com/legendarychoice

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Today’s episode is a special one all about the coronavirus. We’re not going to spend too much time talking about facts, figures, and statistics, but we’re going to focus on specific strategies you can use to stay healthy and sane during these tough times.

There is so much out there in the media, but this is a time where you don’t need to be constantly watching the news — it will drive you crazy. If you need to check the news, check it once a day, but there are not going to be minute-by-minute as it relates to this virus and all it will do is keep you in a perpetual state of anxiety. Social media is going to be the same, reinforcing everything that you hear on the news.

During this time, many of us are going to be indoors and mostly sedentary. You have to stay active. Do some push-ups, look up fitness videos on YouTube, do some yoga. Make sure you are staying hydrated and getting good sleep. These are the things you can do to lower your stress, keep your immune system up, and stay healthy.

There are other things to consider as well: Washing your hands for at least 20 seconds, avoiding touching your face. We all touch our faces 15-20 times an hour without noticing it, so we have to start training ourselves to stop touching them. One tip: Set up a reminder on your smartphone to tell you not to touch your face as often as you can tolerate the messages.

In addition to staying healthy, staying calm is incredibly important. To do this, there’s a psychological technique known as cognitive reframing that can be used to reshape the way you focus information. In the case of the coronavirus, reframe the word to think of it more as the flu. While there are differences, for most of us the risks would be similar, and thinking of it that way could lower your anxiety around it.

We also need to recognize our locus of control: realizing that we have the ability to control how we think, how we act, how we feel, and how we react. When we realize we have control over these things it makes us feel calmer and lowers our heart rates. One way to help your locus of control is through meditation.

Set healthy boundaries with those who are acting irrational or negative. For many of us, those are friends and family, so don’t cut them out forever, but take a break for a few days or even hours.

This is a finite situation and everything is going to get back to normal. These are unprecedented times and we are all in this together. There are opportunities to collaborate, opportunities to feel like we are in control, and opportunities to take control of our health. Stay safe and be well.

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Resources:

• https://www.cdc.gov/
• https://www.who.int/

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