Episode #26: Pessimism to Optimism-Part II of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast is the second of four in which I explore the importance of mindset in how you respond to a crisis. An optimistic mindset views the world through a lens that is at the opposite end of the continuum from pessimism. Optimism is “a [...]
Episode #24: Outcome to Process of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast is the last of four episodes in which I explore the importance of attitude in how you respond to a crisis. This episode examines how an outcome attitude and a process attitude have a vastly different impact on how you respond to a crisis. [...]
This is a question that I’ve been asked frequently of late by family, friends, clients, the media, and random people from whom I get emails, calls, and blog post comments: Will the COVID-19 crisis change us for the better? This question is actually far more complex and nuanced than it might initially appear to be. [...]
Episode #22: Mastery in Action of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast is the second of four in which I explore the importance of attitude in how you respond to a crisis. This episode examines how you can take the lessons about shifting from a victim attitude to a master attitude (Episode #21) and put them into [...]
I was interviewed yesterday by KWMR public radio about how to deal with the psychological, emotional, and social challenges of the current pandemic. My ideas are based on my 2019 book, How to Survive and Thrive When Bad Things Happen: 9 Steps to Cultivating an Opportunity Mindset in a Crisis and recent blog posts that have [...]
Episode #21: Victim to Master of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast is the first of four in which I explore the importance of attitude in how you respond to a crisis. This episode examines how attitudes act as the filter through which you look at, understand, interpret, feel about, evaluate, decide on, and respond to a [...]
Episode #20: Short Term to Long Game of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast is the last of four in a series examining how your investment in the crisis determines whether you respond positively or negatively to it. This episode explores how, when a crisis strikes, we’re wired to focus on its short-term consequences. Back when [...]
In my last post, I challenged the notion that the COVID-19 crisis (or any crisis, for that matter) is all bad. In fact, I argue that this crisis can actually be an opportunity to better yourself as a person and learn how to respond more positively and constructively to crises you will inevitably encounter in [...]
Episode #19-Expectations to Goals of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast is the third of four in a series examining how your investment in the crisis determines whether you respond positively or negatively to it. The way we view the crisis informs the expectations we set related to the crisis and how it will turn out, [...]
Let me begin with a question: In what way, shape, or form could the COVID-19 crisis be seen as a personal growth opportunity? At first blush, you would probably say, “Absolutely no way!” I mean, really, the current pandemic has created crises of health and financial markets that are disrupting the lives of almost everyone [...]
