Having a though time on payroll is not that big of a deal
After accepting a deadline, you invest your energies in figuring out how to deliver within the time constraints. It’s like having your backs against the wall the only way out is by adopting a winners mindset. That’s a deadline, that’s how you grow fast.
What's the upside and downside verses your values system?
The “how bad to you want it” type of scenario. Climbing Mount Everest, person A want’s to be remembered as a great dad while person B as the world climbing champion. The peak is in sight but they hit a potential weather death zone. It’s a one shot only, now or never again. Person A goes back as their intention is to be a great dad, something that if they died would never be able to accomplish. Person B ways their options, they might die becoming what they aspire to remembered as or they might live and never snatch the title.
Frame work are the goggles that shapes the mindset
Refining the concept from above the more we are expose to overcoming challenges the more likely we are to adopt a resilient mindset able at adapting to unforeseen environments with positive aptitude.