When you find yourself navigating your way through a crisis, what can you do to come out on the other side, stronger for the experience?
 
Every crisis involves risk. By definition, a crisis is fraught with danger, but also an opportunity for tremendous learning and growth. Crisis is a time of testing, but it's also a time of renewal. Many people, when faced with a crisis, tell themselves that they have failed and convince themselves that there's no point in trying any longer.
 
For example, if a young woman tries to become a professional singer and fails, it doesn't mean she's a failure as a person or that her life is a failure. It simply means that, at this particular time in her life, her attempts at singing for a living are not working out. There are many other possible choices she can make, including trying again at some point in the future. She hasn't failed, and she doesn't have to give up her dream. But she does need to learn from this attempt and, perhaps, rethink her strategy.
 
Is there another way she can go about it? Does she need more education?  More experience? More exposure? Help promoting her career? Failure is only failure if you let it cause you to quit. If you choose to let it help you, it becomes information you can learn from. 
 
It is in meeting each crisis with determination that we measure up to life and its challenges. In so doing, we develop tenacity and greater inner strength.