Don’t Ride The ‘Doom & Gloom’ Bandwagon

Forget all the doom mongering about the credit crunch and turn these troubled times to your advantage, making this crisis your opportunity.

Though worry and uncertainty is normal at this time, it is important to remember that even if things do go wrong in the short-term, such crises can also mean massive opportunities for positive change. It could be the chance to finally take control of the future, plan a career change, or fulfil that dream of setting up a business and being top dog. And remember, redundancy can actually be the springboard to your success - I should know!

Online trading is an area of the economy that continues to rise. According to recent figures published by Verdict, online spending on retail purchases rose by 35% to 14.7 billion last year and with Internet shopping growing at its fastest rate in six years and more and more UK households getting broadband, the only way to go is up for online retailers.

Getting online is the only way to go now. Some retailers will even tell you that they wouldn’t have been able to afford to keep their shops open had they not set up a Web site for trading online in tandem. Some have even closed their shops after setting up their Web site and now sell purely online. The spirit of entrepreneurialism has never been stronger than it is now in the UK with programs such as The Apprentice and Dragons Den.

So all in all, let’s try to stay positive. Most things at the moment suck - like the price of food and petrol - but let’s not jump on the ‘doom and gloom’ bandwagon of despair, for all that will do will drag us down. We can create new businesses, we can weather the temporary economic storm and we can do better than just survive, we can grow our economy once again like we did over the last two decades. But more importantly, we can grow as people and come out the other side more experienced and rewarded.

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Christian Harris
Founder & Editor, BIOS
http://twitter.com/christianharris