Today I taught a class on being resilient in the face of adversity and unexpected challenges. And a bunch of stuff went wrong in the morning leading up to it! It was perfect!
You couldn’t ask for a better time for a bunch of random mini-disasters to happen. Tech issues, miscommunications, last-minute changes; we had the whole set. A half-dozen things went wrong in the two hours or so before the event.
And the event went perfectly fine.
Rule number one, straight out of the hitchhiker’s guide, is just “Don’t Panic.” Nothing is unfixable, nothing will kill me. Always remember that most people can’t even see those challenges, and won’t even notice their effects on the final product.
“Change” is neither good nor bad. It’s just different. You now exist in a new world; if you view that as a “challenge to overcome,” then you’re fighting the normal progress of life. Don’t. Just think of it as a new town, and now you’re looking for a new place to eat. Neither better nor worse, just different.
The Opportunity Machine 