The U.S. spent $100B to ensure the swing of a second hand turning the millennium, did not crash the modern computer infrastructure during the run-up to Y2K. Pending hurricanes quickly clear store shelves of plywood, batteries, bottled water, milk, bread, and toilet paper. Insurance and financial advisers pitch solutions to mitigate catastrophe and reach personal goals.
How do you prepare for the storms of life during...
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Being stuck in the middle of the storm sucks.
It is scary.
Uncertainty abounds.
The feeling of everything you have is slipping away and never to return spikes the urge for fight or flight. The need to lash out at those closest to us causes long-term damage. Shortness of breath and the inability to sleep sends us deeper into the death spiral.
However, popular memes and business seminars quip...
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"Everyone has a plan 'till they are punched in the mouth" ~ Mike Tyson
Trials, suffering, pain, work, sweat, the grind, being wronged, and every other hardship is an event.
How do you choose to interpret these events?
How did the experience increase your...
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Until recently, very little changed between generations. Children would grow up knowing the same world as their parents. Not so today. Our parent's generation lived in a time we will never understand.
My mom walked through former orange groves and watched the construction of Disneyland on her way to school. She experienced some strange family situations as a young girl, her oldest daughter dying in a horse accident, divorce, life as a single parent before remarrying and enduring me.
My dad watched his brother fight polio and wither...
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Pressure creates diamonds.
Poverty, abuse, persecution, racism, death, bullying, and a myriad of other wrongs influence how we encounter the world.
The social norms of the day may have swept events under the rug or threats silenced the reporting. But, you remember and carry these memories in your bones.
Writer, Debbie Millman (@debbiemillman), openly discusses the sexual, physical, and mental abuse she received as a child and youth. Counseling has helped her...
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Live long enough, and life is going to hurt.
I have, and it does. However, others have encountered far darker days than my experiences.
Seeing this misery silences the complaining tongue that compares with others. It is easy to be jealous of those with the fancy houses and exotic vacations. But, if we play the treacherous game of comparison, it is appropriate to compare to those...
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The theater fades to black. The screen flickers to life and the feature begins. The film whisks me through the standard story arc in 90 minutes. The introduction of the hero sparks empathy and our hero plummets from bliss to chaos. The last quarter of the movie displays the resolution and rising out of the ashes to the new normal.
I am a sucker for a story and my emotions quickly buckle up for the pending roller coaster ride. This plummet over the edge of sanity always gets my heart racing and somehow my eyes leak as if on cue from the director.
We watch our heroes and celebrate their return home. We revel in the entrepreneur's...
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