Welcome to John Gordon's Positive University podcast. I'm Daniel Decker, the co-host of

Positive U and our episode today is a little something different. Instead of John

interviewing someone else, what you'll hear is John answering a few questions from others.

It's part of what we do each month in John's Mentor Coaching Program with live Q&A sessions.

Now what you'll hear today is just a segment because most of our Q&A sessions can go for an hour or sometimes more.

You can join our mentor coaching program by going to John Gordon coaching.com, that's J-O-N-G-G-G-O-N-Gorging. Now the first question that you'll hear John answering is

submitted from someone who recently lost their job and wanted to know how to

stay positive when faced with a challenge such as this.

Now John shares the two questions that everyone must ask when you're faced with difficult times.

So let's dive in.

So I lost my job during the dot-com crash and that was a huge moment for me and an

awakening moment an eye-opening moment for me in terms of losing my job and

didn't know how I was going to provide for my family. The future was in doubt. I didn't handle

in a positive way and yet it would pave the way for what I do now and for who I am now. And so the worst event of my life actually became and led to the best

event of this work that I get to do now. So what I would say during those challenges and struggles

what you want to do is ask

yourself you know what can I learn from this experience how can I grow from this

experience so what can I learn how can grow? What do I want to build now? There's a great opportunity to think about what do I want to build.

When I lost my job, it made me think, like what do I want to create? Like, okay, blank slate. John, if you could do anything, what would it be?

Like, why are you here?

What is your purpose?

And writing and speaking came to me during that time.

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