How Self Motivational People Crisis Manage

Posted on May 13th, 2009 by admin in self motivational

I was inspired to write on this topic as I observe the lack of self motivational behaviour among our British politicians in dealing with the crisis over their use of the badly formed parliamentary expenses system. So what can they and ourselves learn from the way that self motivational people manage a crisis.

The first thing they do is to disassociate from the situation ie they come up above the crisis and take an aerial view of the situation. That way they are less likely to sub optimise when finding a solution and in particular they use their head instead of their emotions. People who are self motivated are very hard headed and will then ask themselves “OK what is the worst thing that can happen to me here?”. This type of thinking means they don’t start to give the crisis more importance than it really deserves. Another good question they ask themselves is “is this situation going to kill me?”. A great question for keeping things in perspective. If this hasn’t calmed you down yet then scale it back and say “will I lose my home as a result?” the answer to that today unfortunately may often be yes. Then the supplementary question is “will I end up without a roof over my head?” The answer to that is “unlikely” which will calm you down. Similarly ” will I starve as a result of this?” to which the answer again is “unlikely”. So if you are not going to die, especially though starvation and you are not going to have to walk the streets then you have time to do some serious and creative thinking.

What did Barack Obama’s advisor Rahm Emanuel say “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Now there is a self motivational approach to a crisis. So now the question that self motivated people ask is “what would be the best possible outcome to this situation?”. By asking that sort of question our subconscious mind sets to work searching for solutions rather than embellishing the picture of the crisis. You have heard me say before that I truly believe that everyone has within them the resources to achieve what they genuinely desire, that’s why I enjoy coaching people to do just that. So by asking the right questions then you set about tapping into those resources.

Now having within you all the resources necessary doesn’t mean you have all the knowledge but what it does mean for self motivational people is that they quickly work out where to go for help and who to ask. Self motivational people also know that crisis just means that life gives tests and that we need to be very adaptable if we are going to find the answer to those tests and move on. If you or the British Parliament would like any more ideas please take a look at my self motivational book list.

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