Episode 66: Maintaining Mental Health While Delivering During a Pandemic

How are you holding up, delivering for Grubhub, Doordash, Postmates, Uber Eats or any other gig companies during this COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic?

That's an important question. I fear that the mental health toll from this could be as bad if not worse than the physical health. How can we respond to this challenge and keep encouraged and manage stress?

A couple of articles here talk about stress, how it impacts us, and how we can manage it. I really encourage checking them out.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-happens-when-your-immune-system-gets-stressed-out/
https://www.webmd.com/balance/stress-management/stress-management

I reference a couple of articles in this episode from the EntreCourier site:

Using gloves when delivering for Doordash, Grubhub etc.
Responding to COVID-19 Coronavirus as a driver (where I said the virus doesn't scare me)

Steven Covey's book 7 habits of Highly Effective People taught me to focus mainly on things I can control, not dwell on what I can't. (The Amazon link is an affiliate link)

The old preacher in me came out - I talk about Philippians 4:6-9 that talks to people in another stressful situation - people wondering when soldiers might come in and drag them off because of their beliefs. A couple of lessons from that passage are:

Let go of the things we cannot controlReplace those concerns by focusing on the positive and what we CAN do (Whatever is excellent or praiseworthy, think on these).

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