The business world is changing fast. It is easy to get crushed in the stampede.

Even if you don;t get trampled it’s easy to feel that one’s feelings have been.

In at atmosphere of great insecurity, How do you build resilience?

One method is based on an old Sufi tale wherein a man and his son are alternately, and repeatedly, confronted with bad luck and good fortune. Neighbors cluster around to commiserate over the former and give congratulations on the latter.

Each time, the man retains his poise and poses the same question: “Good thing, bad thing, who knows?”

Here is a three-step process to help you cultivate this new mode of thinking. Experts recommend you begin using it immediately with the minor misfortunes of your life, so that you are practiced in using it when there is a major derailment.

Be clear regarding what you are about to classify as a bad thing and why.

Ask yourself: “Is there any possible scenario by which this could actually turn out to be a good thing someday?” Simply pondering this question will take you to a different emotional domain, one rich with possibility rather than foreboding.

Ask yourself the next question: “What can I — and my team — do to makethis scenario come about? How can we turn this event into a good thing that we can all celebrate someday in the future?

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