{"id":594,"date":"2009-12-11T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/?p=594"},"modified":"2009-12-11T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T16:42:00","slug":"whats-the-best-that-could-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/whats-the-best-that-could-happen","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the best that could happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-597\" title=\"BestCouldHappen\" src=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/BestCouldHappen.jpg\" alt=\"BestCouldHappen\" width=\"97\" height=\"205\" \/>Sometimes it seems like I&#8217;m hard-wired to look for risks, for dangers.\u00a0 Perhaps I am.\u00a0 So here&#8217;s a powerful question that I use to help break me out of that mindset:<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the best that could happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here&#8217;s the deal:\u00a0 When you have to look for the upside, then it becomes more real.\u00a0 Those scary scenarios start to take a back seat to the more positive energy that flows from this kind of question.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say that I&#8217;m trying to engage with a potential business partner.\u00a0 Normally my fears start creeping in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What if I lose some control?<\/li>\n<li>What if the partner doesn&#8217;t like me?<\/li>\n<li>What if I invest a whole lot of effort and it doesn&#8217;t work out?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Perhaps you recognize this voice too.\u00a0 This gremlin is sometimes <em>screaming<\/em> during these times of economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>So I ask myself the question:\u00a0 What&#8217;s the best that could happen?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I could get more business than I had possibly dreamed of.<\/li>\n<li>I might find that this partner really is awesome and energizing to work with.<\/li>\n<li>This could create wonderful surprises and opportunities that I&#8217;d never even thought of.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this point, there&#8217;s a danger that I might become over-optimistic, so now I temper it with a deeper grounding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Connect with my core principles<\/li>\n<li>Trust in myself and my capabilities<\/li>\n<li>Realize that there are <em>always<\/em> risks in life, but many are worth taking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m feeling more comfortable to move ahead with conviction and energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it seems like I&#8217;m hard-wired to look for risks, for dangers.\u00a0 Perhaps I am.\u00a0 So here&#8217;s a powerful question that I use to help break me out of that <a href=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/whats-the-best-that-could-happen\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,6,32,17],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-594","7":"format-standard","8":"category-career","9":"post_tag-career-coaching","10":"post_tag-coaching","11":"post_tag-coaching-principles","12":"post_tag-fear"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}