What Happens When Life’s Rain Showers Turn Into Monsoons?

The weather is a fickle thing. What starts out to be an overcast day with the risk of showers can without warning turn into a storm of gigantic proportions. Sadly life can and sometimes does mirror the weather as we move through our lives.

I would like to share with you the events of the last seven days of my life. On Friday of last week I went to my doctor not feeling well and ended up in Intensive Care for two days and spent two additional days in the hospital. It seems that I had lost 4 pints of blood over the week from internal bleeding. Unfortunately for me, my wife was in New York waiting for me fly up and meet her. We were to going to bury my mother and fathers ashes in our home town. Due to the blood lose my doctor required me to spend several days at home and I was not able to attend my parents services. On Wednesday of this week; at the exact time that my parents were being layed to rest, I was informed by my manager that my office was being closed due to corporate reorganization and my services were no longer needed. I was stunned to say the least. Seven and a half years of service, 35 years in the industry and I never imagined this happening. You want to take about a storm?                                                    

Business is business and corporations do what they do. This is not about what happened. I’m writing to share with you what will happen and what needs to happen if a storm hits your life.

 

I had my cry, yes I cried and I’m not ashamed to say it. I am passionate about my career and my family. My first feeling was that I had let my family down.
I got mad. Anger is a natural emotion and was normal considering the circumstances.
I realized that what happened, happened and there is nothing that I can do to change it. The question is what am I going to do now?
I sat down and talked to myself and reminded myself what I believe:” Everything happens for purpose and a reason and it serves us.” What that reason is is not clear to me today but I know it will show itself.
I worked on a plan to get through the storm. You see, there is always a plan that will get you through the hard times. I decided not to dwell on what has happened but what is going to happen.
I started immediately to implement my future plans. Action is the best medicine. Doing something to fix the problem is the only way to solve the problem. Self pity, more anger and more crying won’t help. Take action!
I will not allow myself to believe I will fail. I will win. I will find the silver lining, the sun will come out again.

 

We will always be challenged in this life. Like Winston Churchill said: “Never, never, never give up.”

 

Good Selling,

Bob