The 4-Question Adversity Protocol

The job of a leader is to find the victory inside every adversity. And the task of each human is to turn defeat into winning and tragedy into triumph. I know that sounds obvious yet those who make their lives beautiful, joyful and great really do make it a practice of seeing windows of opportunity where most spot walls of adversity. I’ve been through a lot in my life. Been bruised and bloodied, disappointed and dejected. Yet, I’ve always done my best to keep moving forward. And se...

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  Hi, it's Robin Sharma and welcome to Daily Mastery. This is my short form podcast where I'll walk you through the insights, methodologies, and tactics that I've shared with many of the world's most successful people as their mentor, including celebrity billionaires, NBA superstars, world-class artists, and global humanitarians. I hope you find great value in today's episode.

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  Today's podcast episode is focused on a framework that I've offered to my one-on-one mentoring clients with great effectiveness, and it's called the Adversity Protocol. And essentially, it's a series of four questions that you ask yourself if you work with a team at work that you and your team can do together that will allow you to pivot from a problem into possibility. This is what everyday heroes do. They are masters of pivoting or transmuting problems into possibilities. Whenever you, even in your personal life, if there is a soak, a problem is a problem only if you see it as a problem. I'll say that again because I think

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  it's worth writing down and installing as part of your neurological hardwiring and as a brain tattoo. A problem only becomes a problem when seen as a problem. All so-called problems, things that the majority see as problems, a minority of world-class performers understand are actually blessings in disguise. So let's get right into it. Question number one to ask yourself when something seems difficult. Let's say you've lost a big sale at work, or let's say you've had a big fight at home. Ask yourself question number one,

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  how could this be worse? One question you could ask is, has anyone died here? Okay, nope. It immediately shifts the psychology and emotionality into some perspective. So question number one, how could this be worse? You could actually with your team or at home with your family, you could list it out so it becomes real, so it becomes very obvious. Now you have some perspective, it reduces the emotional charge. Question number two, the WTOH question. What's the opportunity here? It's such an excellent question to ask yourself when you're facing a challenge. What's the opportunity here? Oh, we lost the

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  client, it wasn't the right client. Oh, we wanted to buy this house, someone outbid us. What's the opportunity here? Hmm, it probably wasn't for us. We're probably being protected by the universe in some way. What is yours cannot be taken, I guess it wasn't ours. It was meant for someone else, which means there's an even better house there for us. What's the opportunity here? Let's say you're traveling and you missed a flight. What's the opportunity here? To make a new friend sitting next to me. Let's say you're stuck in traffic. What's the opportunity here? I'm going to be late for my meeting.

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  What's the opportunity here? To develop calmness. Life has just sent me a scenario designed to help me develop my patience muscles. Or maybe it's an opportunity to become a member of traffic university and listen to an audiobook on spirituality, or nutrition, or building a great company, or learning something from history. Okay, so the second question to ask yourself as part of the adversity protocol is WTOH, what's the opportunity here? Question number three of this framework. How can I make this fun? Questions are powerful. Often,

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  it's not about knowing the answer, it's about asking the right question. And that's a great question, number three. How can we make this fun? We just, you know, hit a roadblock. How can we make this fun? That stimulates your creativity and your ingenuity to come up with all these solutions to make it more fun. Maybe we're going to order a pizza now and we're going to eat it while we figure out solutions. How can we make this more fun? Oh, we're going to do this and whatever and make it more fun. Question number four, great question. How am I blessed? So you've encountered a wall, you ask yourself question

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  number four, how am I blessed? That will shift you into gratitude. Gratitude is the antidote to fear. Gratitude is the antidote to fear. So you ask yourself, how am I blessed? Which is really, what can I be thankful for right now? Oh, okay, I have food on my table, I have a roof over my head, I have two eyes, if you have two eyes, I have two legs, if you have two legs, I live in a great country, it's sunny today, I've got a great library in my bedroom, and you just go on and on, and you start to breathe, and you start to get some positive neurochemistry that has been activated by gratitude pulsing through

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  your system. So that's the adversity protocol. These first 10 days were very, very much about positivity, and this is a specific framework and series of tactics that will help you turn problems into possibility, which is really what everyday heroes do on a consistent basis.

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  Hi, it's Robin Sharma. I hope you've received strong value from today's episode. I encourage you to read my latest book, The Everyday Hero Manifesto, which is helping people from right across the world live soaring lives. If you'd like to go into further learning, you can head over to robinsharma.com, where you can download my free ebook, The World Changers Manifesto. And when you do that, you'll also get full access to the Everyday Hero Training Formula, which is a complete system to help you upgrade your productivity, positivity, impact, and the quality of your life. Have an outstanding day.