How To Cultivate Post Covid Winning Mentality

There is always a winning mentality and strategy that accompanies every successful venture, especially during global crisis such as pandemic or economic depression.

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” H.P. Lovecraft.  

Lovecraft wrote those words in the 1920’s and they still feel as relevant today and as they were then, especially when we face times of change or crisis in any aspect of our lives.



Overcoming fear during such crisis, requires an extraordinary courage (faith) to maintain forward motion and remain intrepid in the presence of commotion and uncertainty.

However, courage is not the absence of fear but the conquest of it by faith.

Fear is oftentimes driven by negative expectancy and belief system. It has been said that FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real. Conversely, faith is driven by positive expectancy and belief system.


The main relationship between fear and faith is that both requires strong expectancy over the manifestation of something that has not yet become a reality.

Hence, there is a thin line between fear and faith, making it possible to replace fear with faith by changing what your mind focuses on.  My favourite book says, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline’’ (2 Timothy 1:7).

A post Covid winning mentality would require the replacement of fear with faith, to enable you face the future with positive expectancy and begin to see opportunities amid crisis.


Every crisis is the incubation for innovation, and it takes faith to drive the winning mentality required to continue innovating, even when many people are backing out with fear.

There is always a giant in every man's Promise Land and until you engage those giants and drive them out, you can not possess the land. Dealing with what you fear most marks the turning point to cultivating the winning mentality and overcoming the roadblocks you might face post Covid.

''He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.'' Mohammed Ali


This reminds me of King David, who was able to win every battle he faced during his reign as the king of Israel. He has the winning mentality that enabled him to win every battle, including the battle with the giant called Goliath.  

King David said, "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 27:1). With his I-can-do mentality, King David won every battle he fought.

In conclusion, always remember that no condition is permanent, and every crisis has an expiry date. Your tenacity and resilience in the face of adversity or crisis is the winning mentality required to turn failure to success.

My favourite book says, "If you fail to pieces in a crisis, there was not much to you in the first place" (Proverbs 24:10 MSG).


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