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During a Crisis, Find Your “Inner Zone of Excellence”

By Robert Dilts

During a crisis, we have a choice. Either we find our "inner zone of excellence" and re-energize by connecting with the strength within. Or we regress into survival strategies that weaken our position further.

The inner zone of excellence is a key part of what is known as the “inner game” of business. The concept of the “inner game” was developed by Timothy Gallwey as a way of helping people to achieve excellence in various sports (e.g., tennis, golf, skiing, etc.), music and also business and management training. Fundamental to the inner game is our ability to stay in a high performance state when confronted with difficult circumstances.

Many challenges will present themselves in our business : fear of the unknown (i.e. what will happen tomorrow ?), dealing with loss (i.e. losing a member in the team) and a general sense of vulnerability (i.e. how can I succeed in spite of unfavorable circumstances ?). These can plunge us into unhelpful survival strategies: attack, escape or rigidity. This frequently results in temporary regression or inertia.

On the contrary, we can focus in our "inner zone of excellence" and feel :

o No fear of failure or anxiety about achieving our goals

o A  state of focused spaciousness in the mind and relaxed readiness in the body

o Performance coming without effort and without having to think about it

The problem is our relationship to money

That's what Peter Koenig told me in the “Money Seminar” that I recently attended. This is an astonishing course and I recommend it to everybody. Peter has an original vision of money related problems. According to him, money itself is not a problem: it is only a tool to facilitate transactions. Our relationship to money is at the source of difficulties such as the financial crisis. For instance, many people are afraid of lacking money to sustain their own security. This is an illusion. Whatever amount of wealth they own, they will always feel they do not have enough to feel safe. They will spend their life accumulating endlessly. In reality, we all have inside of us the means to feel safe, with or without money.

Here are excerpts of an interview of Peter Koenig :

“ Crisis equals change and opportunities for growth, it is said. What could be the benefits of this crisis?

Peter Koenig : Generally speaking the main benefit of this crisis is that it brings us away from the fictional, abstract, self-delusional world we have been pretending is the truth and natural and call "normal" -  a fiction mirrored by the financial system from inception in its design in 1692 - back to reality and closer to nature. A healthy remembering process.