EP196: Dr. Ivan Misner - Why You Should Focus On Hope & Action During Challenging Times

Dr. Ivan Misner: People are hardwired to follow fear, but I'm trying to tell business people that's the worst thing you can do right now, that hope is more powerful than fear. And hope and action, having a plan, taking action, having hope, that leaves fear in the dust. And that's what we need to focus on. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com. The proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fantastic one. Our returning guest is the founder of the world's leading referral organization Business Networking International, or BNI as you probably know it, Dr. Ivan Misner. Welcome back to the show. Thank you, Michael. It's great to be back on. I appreciate the invite. I absolutely love the opportunity to have conversations with you, and I know our listeners absolutely get so much value from doing it. So I woke up this morning thinking, ah, I get to talk to Ivan. This is going to be a complete pump in the arm. And so looking forward to it. The world since we last chatted The world has changed dramatically. I'd love to hear what you've been going through and how you've been dealing with it.

Ad Read: Yeah, you know, a lot of people call it the lockdown and quarantine. I, I think mindset is so important right now, and I like to call it the great pause because the pause button has been hit on all of our lives, all of our lives, and it's given us both opportunities and it's created challenges for us. Certainly BNI has had a massive challenge. I mean, when you think about it, we have over 9,500 groups that meet in person every week. So we have 9,500 meetings a week all around the world. And when the COVID virus hit, we had to turn on a dime to move all of our 9,500 groups to online, which is what we have done. All of our chapters still meet every week, but they're meeting online instead of in person. It's incredible. I mean, I imagine that in itself would have been an incredible feat. I mean, we're talking about almost 10,000 meetings, and then how many people? I mean, we're talking tens of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. Who's