Crisis to Opportunity Podcast: Episode #35-Madness to Method
Episode #35: Madness to Method of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast is the third of four in which I will wrap up my podcast by exploring how to take everything you’ve learned in this podcast and prepare you to take action that will help you positively confront and, hopefully, overcome the crisis you are faced with.
Quite simply, a crisis causes a sort of madness in people by taking everything that was normal and throwing it for a loop. Not surprisingly then, madness is a recipe for disaster in response to a crisis. The only solution for this crisis-induced madness is creating a method of action that is imbued with clarity of purpose and direction. This framework provides clearly identified roles and responsibilities, articulated goals, and processes to address the challenges of the crisis.
To that end, goal setting is a simple and practical tool you can use to create a method for meeting the challenges of a crisis. For some very elemental reason, people respond to goals in a very deep and personal way. The experience of setting a goal, working toward a goal, and achieving a goal has a powerful emotional resonance that causes us to continue to strive even farther. Pride and inspiration play a central role in how goal setting impacts your ability to overcome a crisis. Pride leads you to put forth the effort in pursuit of your goals while inspiration follows achievement of a goal and encourages you to set your sights on the next goal.
