Stress Busting Suggestions for Speakers Who Are Suddenly Working From Home

Speakers! What a BLOW the Coronavirus has been to your business! What a devastating reduction you have seen in your income producing activities! What a GIANT QUESTION MARK there is around whether or when events will ever “come back”!

Stress for you is at an all time high and yet……

You have something precious. You have something potent. You have something POWERFUL that you haven't lost.

YOUR SPEAKER MAGIC.

You have a voice, You have a message & thanks to the technology angels you actually have ways to Be Heard By Millions & Live Your Destiny - so you definitely have much to be grateful for as the “old world” comes tumbling down and a new world is emerging.

I remember well when I got bitten by the “speaking bug”.

I was approaching my second divorce and my kiddo was approaching puberty when suddenly I KNEW I needed to be a speaker and to share my message - not just with the local yocals at rubber chicken lunch and learns either - my calling was to serve a MUCH larger and wider ranging audience.

I was also called deeply to be the kind of mom I wanted to be for my son - he had a rough start in life as a NICU baby born prematurely and I was wholeheartedly committed to being there with and for him throughout his journey from childhood to manhood.

I was TORN - between this calling to speak and the calling to be a full time stay at home mom. THANK GOD for the technology angels I was able to find my way through - and through the magic of my own Speaker Magic as well as the internet I became a virtual speaker - working from home - heard by millions - and making the brownies for the football team too!

Here are some Stress Busting Tips for you if you are a speaker who is suddenly working from home from my bag of tricks over the years:

1) Have clarity - what are you committed to? Are you still deeply called to speak and share your message? are you willing to do whatever it takes? Are you willing to stay the course? Are you willing to seek help to shift?

2) Have consistency - once you clarify your commitment to this calling stick with it - explore all the options and opportunities - be willing to fail - be willing to get on the wrong platforms as you practice finding your way to the right platforms.

3) Have compassion - be kind to yourself - be willing to cut yourself some slack - be willing to admit defeat and to mourn and grieve for the lifestyle you once had that now has vanished - be ok with not having it all together (hint none of us do we are all making it up as we go along) - be gentle with others and be grateful for every opportunity to speak, share, learn & grow.

4) Have containers - this includes control of your calendar - if you are feeling desperate it’s not the time for you to expand your “working hours” so much that it creates a blow to your health or the health and wellbeing of your family and relationship - be willing to discipline yourself and do what you can each day without self abuse (see #3 above). This includes refining your criteria about what you will, and can reasonably do and with whom.

5) Have creativity - you are naturally a creator - trust that you will find solutions as you are already a solution provider with what you present, teach or deliver with your work. Be willing to experiment and try things that are way out of the box or out of your comfort zone. Follow the flow of your imagination! Is now the time to pivot your business model to online? Is now the time to get out of speaking all together and find other ways to contribute your gifts? Are you being called to do something entirely new (Mushroom Farm anyone?)

6) Have connections - now, more than ever, is the time to tend to and leverage the connections you have made over the years in your industry and with clients and customers you have served in the past - what can you do to connect more with those connections that are most ripe for doing some alternative form of business with you like a virtual summit, teleseminar or interview? What are the connections that you know it’s time to cut?

7) Have consciousness - above all else you must approach this time with consciousness that you are now being faced with a brand new territory and circumstances and you are not alone. Be conscious that getting support is crucial to navigating this time of disruption and dissolution with the greatest degree of ease and grace. Be mindful of how you are expending your time, health, imagination, energy and make sure that FUN doesn’t get left by the wayside.

I hope to encourage you to BELIEVE that you can come out of this time not only successfully but with the tools and tenacity to bust stress out of your life and burst forth with your biggest contribution to life and the fulfillment of your destiny no matter what lies ahead. Your Speaker Magic won’t let you down I promise!

Anjel B Hartwell is an internationally known speaker, mentor and Top 50 ranked Podcast Host of the Men On Purpose Podcast & the Top 75 Ranked Wickedly Smart Women Podcast. She quit the corner office and has been a “Work From Home” entrepreneur for almost 20 years. She cashes in from her couch primarily using Virtual Speaking to spread her message, make money & mentor her clients worldwide who have collectively generated in excess of $55,000,000 in revenues.

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