Belief
Believe in what you are doing. Have conviction in the value addition and consequent wealth creation ability of your work.
Delivery
Focus and concentrate on your current work. Try to deliver as much as possible.
Skill Development
Utilize your spare time in training yourself or in consolidating your system of work.
Cost Cutting
Try to cut any discretionary spending.
Addition to Income
Try to build any possible / alternate source of income.
Liquidity
Try to maintain as much cash in hand as possible for a rainy day.
Sustenance
When there is no remedy for a pain, one has to sustain, should learn to bear that pain. So learn to bear the pressure and its pain.
Opportunism
Always remember that it is the one who holds in bad times, reaps the benefits of good times. So don’t try to escape and run or change the course too often.
Positive Thought
Don’t think much about the recession. It is draining your energies away.
Alternatives
Enjoy the other aspects of life that are not dependent on money e.g. socializing, creative work, charitable activities.