This is a recipe for facing challenges:
- Take time out in a quiet, comfortable, beautiful place
- Get some extra rest
- Read about the challenge
- Write about the challenge
- Seek the counsel of those you respect
- Seek support
- Take the long view. Determine the big idea, mission, and next steps of the challenge--what really matters?
- Go hard on the problem, not the people.
- See the opportunity for betterment the problem presents
- Don't rush the solution
- Take quiet, thoughtful, positive steps in the direction of solution
- Use respect, care, empathy, and understanding
- At the end, reflect on the process, write down the resolve, and move on to the next challenge and experience.
