Listen to a few initially, then start switching to happier, more upbeat songs instead, especially ones focused on surviving, pulling through and starting over again.
Perhaps the Strikers could survive by focusing on becoming a community club, developing and selling young players.
Far from being relentlessly bleak, though, the story also shows how Beth gradually does learn to survive, through focusing on "tiny actions", and buoyed by small acts of kindness from friends and strangers.
Carriers hope to survive by focusing on selling snazzy new services such as a "do not disturb" feature that blocks certain callers at certain times of the day, ten-way conference calls and the ability to have a Manhattan area code while living in Wisconsin.
But it is virtually impossible to sort out priorities when the president is focused on surviving the last 64 days of his term and the president-elect is in Chicago running a government-in-waiting that wants to avoid specifics until he has the constitutional authority to act.
That is if Proposition 2, the one focused on merit pay, survives November's election.
A couple of decades ago, airlines were concerned with surviving economic cycles; this time, airlines were focused on simply surviving, Mr. Grinstein said.
For some years he ran a website and forum called Survive 2012 which focused on a spectrum of physical disasters that could reign down upon the Earth and the kind of actions people could take to not only prepare, but survive.
"At the moment I'm solely focused on surviving next week.
For the moment, arena executives and city officials are focused on surviving the next few weeks.
