General Perception of the Situation

Your focus will be on your safety and that of your immediate family as a priority. You will tend to act in a way that is cautious and careful with choices based around doing things that serve to fulfil an immediate purpose or need. Stocking the shelves, fridge and house with items that you know will be needed will be a key concern. You will be constantly worried about what’s going to happen next, often expecting the worst.

If your underlying beliefs associated with this lens are limiting in nature it may cause you to be more fearful leading you to perceive scarcity and lack where it may not be. This may cause you to buy more supplies than is warranted, believing everything will come to a grinding halt and your survival will be threatened. This approach may prepare you for an absolute worst case scenario, however, may lead you to be inconsiderate of the needs of others.

If your underlying beliefs associated with this lens are supporting in nature it will typically result in you taking one day at a time so you can respond appropriately to new information as it unfolds. This approach may help keep you calm and centred, however, may prevent you from seeing an obstacle or challenge up ahead that you would benefit from planning for in advance.

Key Questions to Ask Yourself

• What do you need to do each day to take care of your physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual needs?
• How can you proactively manage your energy levels?
• In what ways can you take care of your needs without unnecessarily taking from others?
• Where are you feeling out of control and what can you specifically do to feel back in control?
• What is your biggest struggle right now and who can you go to for support?
• What conditions need to be met in order for you to feel safe and secure?
• Once you have the level of safety you desire what will you focus on next?
• What facts do you have to validate the lack and scarcity you believe is present?
• Where can you access accurate information to help inform decisions you need to make?
• What are your triggers for knowing when you need to turn off the news and social media?
• How can you start to acknowledge and accept that a level of unknowns must exist in unfamiliar and uncertain situations?
• What is clearly within your control that you can manage every day to give you a level of certainty you can count on?

Motivational Driver Impact

Your view of the situation and choices you make will be influenced by your dominant motivational driver in the following way:

You may have attached your routine way of operating with your identity and who you believe yourself to be. With your routine disrupted you may find you start to lack certainty around who you are.

You may have had a tendency to operate based around a set of habits, rituals and disciplined that you may not be able to do now with certain restrictions in place causing you to feel unsettled and lost.

You may be driven by an even greater need to have everything you feel you need at the right levels to feel safe and secure causing you to feel more fear and panic when what you need is unattainable.

Action Level Impact

Your ability to adapt to changes and the pace at which you will respond will be impacted by your action level result in the following way:

High
You may have a tendency to react quickly to information without giving it due consideration causing unnecessary panic and overwhelm for yourself and those around you.

Medium
When information is clear you may be quick to act in order to achieve certainty and security, however, when information is unclear you will tend to feel powerless and procrastinate around what to do next.

Low
You may spend too much time in your head trying to make sense of information as it is presented to you causing you to be confused around what action to take often delaying your response to your detriment.

Recommended Action

Write a list of small things you can do everyday to address your physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual needs and commit to a schedule that ensures your needs are met on a daily / weekly basis. This will help to create more balance so you can manage the ups and downs as they play out and make decisions from a place of calm rather than fear. Doing small things everyday to manage your immediate needs will help create a level of certainty you can control every day.

Some examples are:
Physical

• Find an online substitute for your normal daily gym routine
• Write your own quick daily workout e.g. 50 squats on Monday, 100 sit ups on Tuesday and so on
• Try a new physical activity via an online class

Mental

• Commit to read one chapter of a book you have been intending to read for a while but never found the time to do so
• Find a course online that you could complete in your own time and at your own pace and do a bit each day
• Watch a random TED talk each day

Emotional

• Keep a daily journal so you can begin to capture how you are feeling day to day
• Create a song list designed to help shift your mood an energy levels
• Schedule time to chat with your family or friends about how you and others are feeling

Social

• Use technology to stay visibly connected to family and friends
• Connect with a new social group or business network online
• Write and deliver handcrafted cards or motivational postcards to your neighbours at random times

Spiritual

• Schedule some time each day to meditate or pray
• Sit quietly with your eyes closed for 10 minutes each day focusing on your breathing to recenter the body and mind
• Go outside each day and walk in the grass barefoot and breathe in the air for 15 minutes