Tough Times for The Therapist

The economy is screwed up, the media are to blame and the world's governments are trying to fix it. In the meantime we are all to plod on trying to make our way through the murky undergrowth of business. And it's hard.

I have been a business mentor now for a year, and many of those clients are fellow therapists. Each time I speak to them I become saddened with how this abundance of negativity is effecting the way that they attract business. Fewer and fewer new clients are making the call to book appointments and long term clients are dropping off like flies.

When your mortgage, your life and livelihood rely on your skills of helping others yet no one is seeking you to help them it becomes worrying. It's times like these we need to stop worrying, we need to pick ourselves up and realise that we can come back - fighting fit and still reign supreme.

Instead of looking at how bad a state we are in we need to adopt the Success mindset, we need to look at the way in which we find ourselves and spot opportunities in that which will allow us to succeed in ways we never experienced before.

Look at the market you used to work before all of this and say goodbye to it, its you that needs to make the shift and you need to make it now. Look for changes, look out for how you can use the situation and combine your skills to help people.

Stress levels are high, how can we help with that? Money is tight, how can we help people save? Time to change.