This document provides a personal contingency plan for beating panic by creating choices, weighing options, and making a plan. It outlines thinking of 5 potential choices when facing panic and assessing those choices using SWOT analysis. The plan recommends crafting a story for each choice by considering who, what, why, how, where, when, and with what. It also identifies 7 qualities to cultivate: committed, decisive, healthy, mentored, persuasive, solvent, and specialist.

1. Personal Contingency Plan:
Beat The Panic
Keith Doyle, Extreme Usability
keith.doyle@extremeusability.co.uk

5. What We’ll Be Covering
• Creating Choices
• Weigh up the Options
• Creating a Plan
• Useful Qualities

6. Creating Choices

7. The Three Choices
• Fight
• Flight
• Freeze

8. Think of 5 Choices for You
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9. Weigh up the Options

10. Circles of Influence

11. SWOT

12. SWOT
• The job I’m in now
• One of the other five
options

13. Creating a Plan

14. What’s the Story?
• Who?
• What?
• Why?
• How?
• Where?
• When?
• With What?

15. Homework - Elevator Pitch

16. Useful Qualities

17. Committed

18. Decisive

19. Healthy

20. Mentored

21. Persuasive

22. Solvent

23. Specialist

24. Seven Qualities
• Committed
• Decisive
• Healthy
• Mentored
• Persuasive
• Solvent
• Specialist