Observe:

This step is all about analyzing the situation and environment so you can logically assess the advantages and areas of adjustment. To do so ask yourself these questions:

·  What is similar to my past environment or the environment you were comfortable in?

·  What is different? This way you can see the contrast and really determine Is it really that big of a difference?

·  Who is like your client’s staff?

 Adapt:

Now that you have the information for your initial observation you are ready to Adapt. Ask:

·  What current skills do I possess that fit well, or even provide an advantage to this new environment?

·  How does my previous experience add value? 

·  How do I make the uncomfortable comfortable?

Execute:

And the final key is execute. To do this you need to know:

·  How am I a unique solution to those who are comfortable in this environment?

·  What are the key areas of issues I can bring value to?

·  Why do they need my contribution?

·  What are they looking for that you see that they can't see?

·  And then what is my advantage over others who could provide something similar?

 Once you have answers to all this question you will find that you have everything you need to determine your advantage.

Episode: Transcribed

Opening: On this episode of the power to adapt we take a deep dive into the three key secret’s sharks can teach us to overcome uncertainty and own any environment that we find ourselves in. So let's dive right in.

I am willing to bet that many of you who know that sound just had a terrible memory right about now. I think that sound from the Jaws movie released in 1974 directed by Steven Spielberg is possibly the primary reason for why many people who saw the movie choose not to learned how to swim or swore they would never get into the water at the beach again. Even today, and I am one of those people, that movie scarred me for life. So what do sharks have anything to do with adapting to any disruption in your environment.

My inspiration for this episode was show called Shark Week, and how the scientist on the show was talking about different sharks they were tracking and how each shark adapts to their different environments, they discussed how their instincts adjust intuitively to where they're at, and not necessarily because of the environment. But more importantly, because they're looking for a way to take their abilities and their skills and to be able to reach a higher level of success in hunting prey, their instincts are to hunt, they're amazing predators, and their instincts drive them to these places. So they tracked them from Australia, Africa, Mexico, and yes, Florida, and for some reason, the scientists were ecstatic that the shark population was growing in Florida, and they observed them on how they adapted to these different environments. Now in Mexico, the water seems bottomless, and if you've seen those pictures of the great white sharks doing a Polaris breach. They explode out of the water, making these acrobatic moves in the air as they go after seals.

That was their tactic; they recognize that the way to sneak up on your prey was to adapt to the environment of going deep and going straight up underneath your target, this is used in Guadalupe Island Mexico and Cape Town Africa, in Australia Typically, they attack at dawn and at dusk when the sun is at the low position. However, there is a pattern to be noted i.e. the sun is always behind the shark during the hunt. it...