Crisis at Work? How to Stay Calm When Everything Feels Uncertain

It’s Monday morning. You sit down with your coffee, open your laptop—and get hit right away: “Mass layoffs at…,” “Inflation climbs again,” “AI threatens millions of jobs.” Before you’ve even checked your first email, a knot forms in your stomach. And suddenly you’re wondering: Am I next?

This feeling is all too familiar for many young professionals. The current vibe even has a name: the age of constant crisis. Whether it’s a pandemic, geopolitical conflict, rising energy costs, or the next tech disruption—just when you think you’ve found some stability, the ground shifts again.

The Invisible Weight of Information Overload

The hardest part isn’t always the crisis itself—it’s the speed and volume of updates we’re exposed to. Every push notification demands your attention. LinkedIn floods your feed with posts about uncertainty in your field. Coworkers are already speculating in chat about potential restructuring.

The result? A constant background noise that makes calmness feel almost impossible.

How Filtering Brings You Peace

The first step: turn on your filter. Imagine your mind as a house—would you really let every stranger walk through the front door? That’s how you should treat incoming news.

• Ritual over noise: Check the news at set times instead of letting it interrupt your day.

• Quality over quantity: Stick to a handful of trusted, thoughtful sources.

• The stop-question: Do I need this information to do my job or live better today? If not, move on.

This isn’t about ignorance—it’s about protecting your focus and nervous system from constant overdrive.

Trusting Your Intuition

Calm doesn’t just come from external filters—it also comes from an internal compass. Often, we already know what feels right for us. We just forget to listen.

Think about the last time you had to make a tough decision. Chances are, you had a gut feeling within minutes—long before your brain finished weighing every pro and con. That’s intuition: condensed experience whispering while your thoughts are still shouting.

• Listen to your body: Racing heartbeat, unease, or surprising calm are all signals worth noticing.

• Pause before outsourcing: Instead of immediately asking others for advice, take five quiet minutes to ask yourself, What do I sense here?

• Balance intuition with facts: It’s not either-or. Data informs you, but intuition helps you choose when the path is unclear.

Staying Calm as a Superpower

Crises aren’t going away. But calmness isn’t a luxury—it’s a future skill. If you can filter what comes in and trust your own inner compass, you’ll stop being swept away by the tides of uncertainty and stay grounded in your own rhythm.

That doesn’t mean ignoring reality. It means choosing what you let into your mind—and trusting that you can handle the rest.

In the end, calmness isn’t a trick or quick fix. It’s a mindset: The world will stay uncertain. But I’ll stay with myself.