Simone Stolzoff

On day seven, you go on a walk in your neighborhood to show your face that you're still around to your neighbors.

And I think having that process certainty can help us cope with or manage some of the emotional uncertainty that we may be feeling.

No, I think it's a great segue.

We talked about finding your anchors.

I think the second thing I'll say is to focus on the next right action.

So this is a concept from Buddhism.

Often when we are thinking about an uncertain situation, we can get overwhelmed with sort of that spiraling thinking that you were talking about.

talking about earlier where you might end up sleeping with four people on a love seat.

But instead of thinking about this leads to this leads to this leads to this, we can ground ourselves in the present moment and just think about one step at a time.

So one example, I, in the book, I profile this crisis communications expert.

So you sort of gets brought into companies at the worst part of their company journey.

Maybe there's been some sort of tragedy or scandal that,

And she told me about this one time where she was in this boardroom full of lots of executives and everyone was freaking out about the next thing to do after this big sort of company calamity.

And she took a piece of butcher paper and she rolled the butcher paper out on the boardroom table and she wrote down every single thing that needed to be done.

You need to write a press release.

You need to communicate with your employees.

You need to communicate with your investors, etc.

She had all of these things written out on a piece of butcher paper, and she said, what is the next right action?

What is the one most important step that we can take right now?

By getting all of those things out of their heads and onto the page, they were able to start prioritizing and chipping away.