Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to recognize that a crisis can be
Speaker 1: a turning point for the better. When we are stuck
Speaker 1: in the bottom part of a narrative, it helps to
Speaker 1: think of it as just that the bottom. There is
Speaker 1: a different ending to the story, and the path to
Speaker 1: that new ending is being formed right now. When you
Speaker 1: think about the narrative arc of so many good stories,
Speaker 1: many involve a person hitting rock bottom and then having
Speaker 1: something good come out of that dark place. Think Jane
Speaker 1: Eyre fleeing her beloved's house when she learns he is married,
Speaker 1: and finding herself penniless, hungry, and without any family and friends,
Speaker 1: and then making friends, learning of an inheritance, discover r
Speaker 1: she does have family, and reuniting with the widowed Mr
Speaker 1: Rochester in a marriage of equals. The biblical Joseph is
Speaker 1: sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers and then
Speaker 1: comes into political power in his new country, saving Egyptians
Speaker 1: and his own family from starvation. Or even think of
Speaker 1: someone like Danny Thomas, who was an aspiring entertainer struggling
Speaker 1: to make a living. He prayed to St. Jude, patron
Speaker 1: saint of lost causes, show me my way in life,
Speaker 1: and then found his way professionally, becoming successful and founding St.
Speaker 1: Jude Children's Research Hospital along the way. These are famous stories,
Speaker 1: and sometimes we have them in our own lives. We
Speaker 1: all hit bottom at some point or another. We lose jobs,
Speaker 1: we lose businesses, relationships end. A disaster wipes out decades
Speaker 1: of possessions, A serious illness throws everything up in the air.
Speaker 1: Or yes, a pandemic can change so much of what
Speaker 1: we've worked for, even expected and hoped for. Transitions, maybe
Speaker 1: like moving to a new city, disrupt everything and can
Speaker 1: leave us disoriented. But that doesn't need to be where
Speaker 1: the narrative ends. The next time you find yourself in
Speaker 1: a moment of crisis or loss, consider how the crisis
Speaker 1: could become a turning point for good. How could the
Speaker 1: seeds of success be planted right now? What forced change
Speaker 1: is going to lead over time to something great. Conceptualizing
Speaker 1: a crisis as a potential turning point and not as
Speaker 1: a catastrophe helps us have a sense of agency and control.
Speaker 1: It also prompts us to be intentional in shaping what
Speaker 1: comes next. Rather than being consumed by the loss or
Speaker 1: focusing on damage control. We can look ahead and learn
Speaker 1: from the crisis. We can reshape our future to be
Speaker 1: better than the past. There's a popular saying to never
Speaker 1: waste a good crisis, or another version, no good crisis
Speaker 1: should go to waste. While people sometimes sees this advice
Speaker 1: in unfortunate ways when it comes to public policy in
Speaker 1: our own lives, we can view it as a source
Speaker 1: of hope. The pandemic forces a change in a business model,
Speaker 1: but the new business model turns out to be one
Speaker 1: you like better. An illness prompts you to clean house
Speaker 1: in your life and keep only those people in activities
Speaker 1: that bring joy. So if you find yourself in a crisis,
Speaker 1: consider what you have to learn and how you can
Speaker 1: make what's next for you even better than what you're
Speaker 1: leaving behind. How can this crisis be a turning point?
Speaker 1: How can it be rock bottom? Which means that everything
Speaker 1: moving forward points up In the meantime, This is Laura,
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
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