From the course: Developing Mental Toughness for Leadership
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Growing through crises
From the course: Developing Mental Toughness for Leadership
Growing through crises
- Do you remember where you were when you first realized the severity of the COVID crisis? I do. I had just done an event in Australia and flown home and had sat down on the evening I got back and watched the news and I was listening for the first time about how society was going to lock down and things were going to change. And it was at that moment, I realized that this was going to have a profound impact on my professional life, because as a professional traveling speaker, that work stopped almost overnight. And I remember the feeling waking up the next morning, I was in complete paralysis, I was frozen almost in fear. The change that had been done to me meant that all of a sudden I was in a deep reactive mode. I didn't know where to go, I didn't know how to regain control. And as a result, I didn't know what to do. And after I'd been through that initial paralysis, I started to go into a phase of denial. I started to think to myself, maybe it's not really going to happen, maybe…
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