Six Keys to Managing Crisis

By Jayne Moffitt
Nov 23, 2008



It’s difficult enough to manage a major life transition that was planned, but what can you do when one enters your life through crisis? Everything changes, what defines a crisis is critical and abrupt change. The depth and complexity of your crisis will eventually determine what you will do and how long it will take to do it but the steps in managing it emotionally are the same.

1. Step Back
The first thing you need to do is step back from the situation and realistically assess two things. Become an observer and see your crisis from an outward perspective.

2. What’s the worst that can happen at this point?
The key here is to accept your answer as a mere factual statement. Turn off your emotional attachment to the situation as best you can by being your own mediator between your thoughts and the real world. That’s not the same as suppressing your emotions; it just means that you have to be able to think through them and not with them. This is especially true when your expectations of the worst case scenario are exaggerated. Today, many are facing this with financial crisis. The truth however, is that you have probably never gone hungry and never will. You have probably never gone without a roof over your head and won’t now. You may have to learn to do things differently, yes.

3. What the best possible outcome?
Every crisis contains and equal amount of opportunity if you take the time to find it. I have experienced several significant crises in my life. In some I was able to see this right away and in others it took quite some time. Have faith that it will happen though. Play with that idea for awhile. So, what if you had to move, maybe it would become a great adventure in your life. What kind of story will this create to tell your grandchildren some day?

4. What can I do?
If there is something within your power to change for the better, then do it. Really brainstorm with yourself to find an answer. Often it is closer than you think. Sometimes though, the only thing you have the power to change is what is going on in your own mind.

5. Ask for help.
Admitting that you don’t know what to do is the first step in finding out what to do. You were not meant to live this life alone. There are people surrounding you every day, truly angels in disguise that would leap at the opportunity to help you if you’d only ask. This is how God supplies you with the unlimited resource of Him. Use the gift He is giving you.

6. Be flexible.
You have to accept the fact that crisis is God’s way of pointing you in a new direction. Be willing to look down that road and see what is waiting for you there. It will be a road full of emotions both good and bad, but it will also be a road full of life lessons learned and the opportunity for walking a path of wisdom and arriving at a newer and better you.

Every crisis is an opportunity to rebuild a new you. Embrace that as the chance to grow into more than you were yesterday and a vision of what you could be tomorrow. The possibilities are endless and ALWAYS there is something positive that can be created from even the most stressful or tragic of times.







Author's Bio



Jayne Moffitt is sincerely committed to helping others embrace their purpose, passion and potential. Dropping out of college, she began her adult life as a teen parent struggling to make ends meet and even receiving public assistance. Through the grace of God, Jayne has since followed Spirit to become a multimillion dollar business owner, investor, author, coach and even a college graduate. She is now the mother of four beautiful children and truly feels she is leading the unabridged version of her life.

In addition to her own company, Jayne is also the founder of Life is Now Inc., a company dedicated to helping people achieve their goals and fulfill their dreams through spiritually based success principles.

She has partnered in business with some of the most prominent leaders in self improvement including Bob Proctor and David Neagle. Jayne was also the Vice President of the leading sales and facilitation team for Bob Proctor’s Life Success Productions where she shared her passion for finding fulfillment and purpose with clients from all over the world including Australia, Canada, the United States, Israel and the United Kingdom. You can learn more about Jayne through her website at www.JayneMoffitt.com.