How To Avoid Disaster - Resilience Expert® Cheryl Hunter

Disaster comes in many forms, sizes, and shapes. There are unavoidable disasters – such as natural disasters, terrorism, illness, and the like – and there are avoidable disasters – such as the times we should have known better (or we did know better, and decided to go against what we knew to be true.)

Today’s video is about disasters of the avoidable type.

One of the biggest ways we get into that type of disaster is we second guess ourselves and we go against what our gut is telling us. We reason ourselves to death saying things like, “It’ll be so much harder to do it that way,” or, “What could possibly go wrong,” or even, “I’ll figure it out later.”

Take a moment and bring to mind some of the most “disastrous” circumstances you’ve faced. Was the disaster an avoidable one? If so, what part did you play in the situation escalating to the level of disaster?

There are situations in life we can’t do anything about; they’re out of our control. Earthquakes will hit; our loved ones will pass away; companies will be sold and people will lose their jobs due to no fault of their own. Bad things occasionally happen to good people, and unfortunately, that’s a part of life.

There are situations that we absolutely can control, however, and that’s where today’s video can help empower you. Check it out here:

Once you watch the video, I’d love to hear from you. Using the comments section below, let me know what are some of the times when you’ve had a hand in a disaster that’s occurred in your life? What are times when you’ve avoided disaster, because you did the right thing? What are you going to do differently now?

As always, please share this video with your friends and family that you know this would help. Remember, it takes a village! 🙂

Thank you for being a part of this community.

To your success,

Cheryl

2 Comments

Valentine Bargmann on March 17, 2017 at 7:45 am

This is great advice. It’s sometimes scary to listen to what your gut is telling you, but I recently stopped ignoring a couple months of messages from my gut telling me to end a project. I did end it, despite me years about what would happen after it was over (like where I was going to get money from) but I know listening to my gut and getting out was the right thing to do. Now the challenge is to find something my gut will tell me is the right thing.

Cheryl Hunter on March 19, 2017 at 2:25 pm

Valentine, I applaud you for honoring your gut. It isn’t always the easy choice – especially when, like you said, you have to worry about things like income – but living WITHOUT honoring your gut never turns out well. That much I know for certain. Wishing you wild success on your new path.

Valentine Bargmann on March 17, 2017 at 7:45 am

This is great advice. It’s sometimes scary to listen to what your gut is telling you, but I recently stopped ignoring a couple months of messages from my gut telling me to end a project. I did end it, despite me years about what would happen after it was over (like where I was going to get money from) but I know listening to my gut and getting out was the right thing to do. Now the challenge is to find something my gut will tell me is the right thing.
- Cheryl Hunter on March 19, 2017 at 2:25 pm
  
  Valentine, I applaud you for honoring your gut. It isn’t always the easy choice – especially when, like you said, you have to worry about things like income – but living WITHOUT honoring your gut never turns out well. That much I know for certain. Wishing you wild success on your new path.