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DISRUPTED BUSINESS CYCLES ?

Coronavirus has shown what business disruption could really mean. Are we ready to learn our lessons yet ?

For several decades top business gurus, tycoons and consultants have been talking about "creating disruption" in the market-space and business cycles.
World has been guided by the "me first" , "my first" and "what's in it for me" syndrome.
The general advice has been to introduce a new unexpected concept, an idea, a technology, a food ingredient, a behavior or a habit ....anything that will create disruption!

Incidentally the parameters for distinguishing good advice from bad too have been twisted. Anything that can pass under the legal umbrella is okay, whatsoever the intent may be. As long as it can attract attention and earn money, it is considered good advice.

Technological disruptions aim at bringing "financial success " to a few at the expense and perils of so many others who lose jobs, are forced repeatedly to spend emotionally challenging days, sacrifice family time to be able to keep the ball rolling.

The politically driven and financially backed resistance to expediting renewable energy sources of power is another classic example of this mindset of promoting something that benefits a few.

This mindset of disrupting business cycles, technology has gone on to expand into lifestyle choices, behaviors and attitudes of a worryingly large population.

Disruptive food technologies create less than favourable food products that are neither good for humans, nor for the environment. But these are promoted because they earn dollars for few.

Disruptive methods and supplements for gaining or losing weight, building muscle or shape are promoted, without adequately educating people of their adverse long term effects.

Disruptive videos without consideration for any social responsibility are produced and promoted, impacting whole generations of children adversely.

Incorrect role models who have become rich, powerful or influential while promoting wrong ideologies, has facilitated creation of wrong values for millions of people, who are willing to go to any extent to earn money, get attention, power and lifestyle at the expense of anything.

So anything from forests, animals, environments to health and relationships became expendable, so that few people alone could grow financially, live a lifestyle, or control power and authority that so many others aspire for.

Probably it's time to change the mindset.

Coronavirus has shown that when nature retorts back, a minor disruption which has neither affected the day,night, weather,clouds, climate or even other species on Earth, can create so much of a challenge and loss for humanity.

It is a choice....will we learn our lessons, or do we need another disruption from the nature's side ?

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Corona virus 🤧 😷 😱 and the love for Toilet Paper

I read an interesting article from Macquerie Business School's Dr Prashan Karunaratne about Corona virus's effect on food, grocery and other supplies. His point was that when people are fearful, they tend to focus more on their physiological and safety needs. The implication of this is that people are flocking to the stores and buying (or hoarding ??) huge stocks of the basic staples and necessities - flour, sugar, pastas ....and even toilet rolls. This is leading to stockouts on store shelves in the popular convenience stores - Coles, Woolies and Aldi in Sydney and other surrounding regions. And the supply chains are not "elastic" enough to adapt and re-stock at a similar pace.

An additional perspective that will need more elaboration is about the psychological factors.

As mentioned in my previous post , fear drives people to behave irrationally, and sometimes even with insensitivity and indifference.

Two prominent factors that seem to be in play right now are as follows:

1. Fear 😱 😨 of facing apocalyptical situations may be actually forcing people to reduce their social in-person connections (due to threat of being infected) in the immediate term.

When fear significantly dominates the mind, an individual's response is often a panic- response rather than one based on reasoning or rational thinking. So while rational buying would mean stocking certain necessities for 3-4 weeks in place of usual 1-2 week supplies, a panic driven response would make people stock supplies for possibly 5 - 6 months for the "just in case" situations (aka the zombie movies 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟 everything goes bad, the world comes to an end and after six months, only we are the survivors !) .

2. Greed and insensitivity: 🤫 🤔

While Coles, Woolies and Aldi may be conscious of their image and stay away from making quick profits from the situation, a lot of other people may not be as conscious or concerned. So stocking heaps of necessities becomes a quick way of making money when these essentials are out of stock in convenience stores.

How about selling these essentials online for some quick bucks ? (As has happened multiple times in the recent past with baby foods and other items)

And both of these aren't good for a society or for the economy as a whole.

Let's wait and watch !

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Read the original article from Macquerie Business school here:

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Is The "Ladder" Still Controlling Your life ?

I heard this beautiful analogy in the form of a metaphor (story) some time ago.

THE INCIDENT

A small child of about 4 years age, was passing through a large ground with his parents. As often children do, he was running ahead, stopping to explore things, rushing back to parents and generally not listening to them.

At one point he saw a man up on a ladder leaning against the wall. Out of curiosity, he went there are stood under the ladder watching what this man was doing. And suddenly something hard dropped from above and hit him on the leg. It was a screwdriver.

The child screamed. He had been hurt and was bleeding.The man came rushing down from the ladder and the parents rushed and attended to the child, bandaged etc.

The parents were angry, shouted at the man and then took the child away. They also scolded the child for not listening to their advices of caution.

THE UNCONSCIOUS DECISION

This incident shook the child and he unconsciously decided that he would never go under a ladder leaning against a wall. And he continued doing that...to never go under a ladder leaning against a wall.

And thus "THE LADDER STARTED CONTROLLING HIS LIFE".

Numerous times the boy, now a young man, avoided going through alleys, lanes where one had to pass under ladders leaning on walls. And he missed opportunities of reaching for interviews in time, faced humiliation when with colleagues, for choosing to avoid the ladder.

THE SELF- EMPOWERING CHANGE

Frustrated with his fears and all the associated pain and humiliation, he one day decided that he would stop fearing the ladders.

Inspite of the anxiety, he mustered tremendous courage and went under a ladder leaning on a wall.

Nothing happened ! And he sighed with relief. Feeling proud of his achievement, he did this same act again and again to feel the joy and the freedom. He made a commitment to himself that he will always go under the ladder to cement his confidence.

And he stared doing just that. Everytime he saw a ladder leaning against a wall, he would ensure that he went under it and felt proud.

THE CONCLUSION

"THE LADDER WAS STILL CONTROLLING HIS LIFE ! "

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Do you have a ladder that is still controlling your life ?

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What is your True Identity - ICE or WATER ?

I learnt this beautiful metaphor yesterday.

ICE believes that at it's core it is " ICE" - hard, cold, solid...that is it's identity in its perception.

Because of this belief that it is ICE and not truly water, it remains at the top layer of the seas and oceans, fearing that it will melt if it goes any deeper.

It also deeply fears that if it let any warmth come close to it, it will die.

So it let's only those who are like it - who believe they are cold, hard, solid to come near it....and in fact attempts to remain close to such others, so they can mutually feed their belief about their identity as ICE.

And because of this strong belief about their identity as Cold, hard, solid ice they miss out on the freedom, the pleasure, the fun that free flowing water enjoys just below it.

This deep, freedom filled life is right there in front of the ice, spread in all directions and directly below it, but it's own belief keeps it struggling to maintain it's identity as Cold, Hard, Solid Ice.

If it let the warmth from below or above take over, it will melt.......and with the death of that identity will begin the enjoyment and the never experienced freedom...but ICE has to let go of it current beliefs about it's identity..

in a way it will have to accept the death of it's current Identity for this...and that is a fearful thought !

This is the same way that many people believe their identity is "being" fearful, "being" angry, "being" sad, "being" sick or "Being" Guilty .. You can hear them say (or write on social media) , I "am" fearful, or I "am" sad, and so on.

They do not want to acknowledge that their true identity is of pure love . They put in so much energy to not allow the pure love and inspiration from deep within them to come out...reinforcing their perceived identity every waking hour, coz if they did not do this, then their own perceived identity about themselves would finish.. their identity would end..it would die ! And death is something to be feared of ! Isn't it ?

So they associate with people who also believe their identity is about "being" fearful, "being" angry, "being" sad or "being" sick.' And together they keep assuring each other that their perceived identity is safe, away from warmth, love and freedom .

And they remain trapped in this for all their life, as if life can never change for them.

All this can just change, if they allow love and inspiration from deep within , to take over...their false identities would melt away, and love will do the healing that they have been craving for and avoiding unconsciously...

And it is possible....hundreds of thousands of people have done it...these people can do it as well. All they need is awareness, acceptance and to let go !

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The author is a Life Transformation Coach, a registered Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Master Practitioner of Conscious Hypnosis (Hypnotherapy), Licensed mBraining Coach and a Practitioner of Timeline Coaching. He helps people who are struggling with deep personal issues, challenges in relationships, career or business, to overcome their fears, anxiety, depression, anger, sadness, guilt, frustration, chronic pain, allergies and to start living a peaceful, calm, fulfilled life.

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