Begin with the end in mind! I’ve probably hear that expression 15 times in the last week and when I woke up this morning, it was sitting on my heart. I knew that if I allowed myself to glide through the day, overeating, overdrinking, and over-escaping I wouldn’t be able to feel this holiday as the day of gratitude that it truly has the potential of being. It’s always easy for me to be grateful for what is good. I can say honestly that there isn’t a day that goes by that I pause and recognize how grateful I am for my healthy family and for the love of friends and family around me. What I’m often not so good at recognizing is gratitude for the things that are challenging me and helping me grow and be a better person.
Rebounding: Breaking through
I must say that one of the things that seems to be a recurring theme for me is the need for me to break through my own inertia on a daily, almost hour by hour basis. Waiting for motivation never seems to be the answer – it is much much easier to find reasons NOT to do than to do, many days. There is nothing like financial loss to make you feel less than confident, less than creative, less than…well, yes, just LESS, I guess. And yet waiting for that to change, I know I could wait forever. Action is the only thing that keeps allowing me to break through the veil of my own processing and at the same time facilitates it.
They say that only 3% of new businesses will make it through the first 3 years. Despite those less-than-encouraging statistics, somehow I felt that I could rise above those odds. 3% do, after all! I thought we had found a vehicle to carry us over the start-up threshold when we formed a strategic partnership with a 10-year old, supposedly stable company
Rebounding one day at a time
Well, yesterday marked yet the beginning of another new chapter – an opportunity to rebound and create a new perspective, a new life. I opened this blog with a very short post just to demark the moment in time in which THIS chapter began, even though we didn’t have much time to get into the heart of the thing. We will, though, over the course of the next several days, months – who knows, maybe even years! – have a chance to chat about all. In 2008, I lost a business – what of course is ironic is that starting the business was a new chapter as well, right? This blog is a chance to explore those seasons of loss and gain, to discuss the realities of grieving and rebounding from those losses – whether they be divorces, bankruptcies, business losses. I’ve experience all of those – the bankruptcy being the one I’m experiencing now – and I feel somehow it is imperative for not only myself, but for you, that I be as honest and transparent about what the emotions are that I’m experiencing and have experienced, how those emotions have translated into learning, and how I plan to rebound and move forward.
Who knows? Maybe by sharing we could just get through this thing intact, alive, and better than ever!
