In Episode #11: Panic to Purpose of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast, I continue our exploration of the reactions we experience in response to a crisis. In today's episode, I show how a crisis mentality results in an instinctive reaction--panic!--that produces intense fear, a racing mind, and chaotic actions, none of which are likely to [...]
In Episode #10: Stress to Calm of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast, we continue our exploration of the powerful role that emotions play in how we react to crises in our lives. This episode examines how the stress that you will experience in response to a crisis leaves you unprepared psychologically, emotionally, and physiologically to [...]
In Episode #9: Frustration to Equanimity of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast, we continue our exploration of the powerful role that emotions play in how we react to crises in our lives. This episode examines the absolutely frustrating nature of crises and how that emotion can frequently either slow down or prevent a positive resolution [...]
In Episode #8: Fear to Courage of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast, we continue our exploration of the powerful role that emotions play in how we react to crises in our lives. This episode examines whether you experience fear or courage as you confront crises in your life. As you can imagine, fear produces in [...]
The Saturday Evening Post published my most recent column, Does Our Primitive Survival Instinct Still Work in the 21st Century? Our survival instinct, which has served us so well since we climbed out of the primordial muck eons ago may now be failing us. Why? Because the fight-or-flight reaction that arises in response to a threat [...]
In Episode #7 of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast, we continue our exploration of the powerful role that emotions play in how we react to crises in our lives. Specifically, this podcast will examine whether you experience either disappointment or devastation as you confront a crisis and how each of these emotions enables you to [...]
In Episode #6 of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast, Emotions, I explore the immense impact that emotions have on how we respond to crises. The feelings you have in reaction to a crisis influences how you perceive, interpret, evaluate, and act as the crisis confronts you. Your ability to master your emotions, minimize the negative ones [...]
In Episode #5 of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast, Reaction vs. Self-possession I explore how your reaction to a crisis can be dictated by either your primitive instincts or self-possession. Your instinctive reaction will likely be immediate, urgent, and intense, none of which will be helpful in most modern-day crises. In contract, a response that [...]
In Episode #4 of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast, Threat vs. Challenge, I explore how the way you perceive the crisis, as either a threat or a challenge, determines how you think, feel, and respond to it. If you react to a crisis as a threat, you trigger your primitive survival instinct which leads you [...]
I'm pleased to announce the recent publication of my latest book, and my first in the self-help category, How to Survive and Thrive When Bad Things Happen: 9 Steps to Cultivating an Opportunity Mindset in a Crisis. Here's the book description: Few of us go through life without experiencing some sort of crisis, whether health, financial, [...]
