20. Hardship
Wise men learn first before they act and then not mainly from their own mistakes but from those of others. But if you find yourself in times of hardship remember that hidden in every problem is an opportunity. There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.
Life is hard. It’s even harder if you’re stupid.
- John Wayne -
An easy life doesn’t teach us anything; in the end it’s the learning that matters. What we have learned and how we have grown. That’s why headhunters ask you “How have you changed this last year?”
It’s in the way we stand up each time we fall. Let’s turn each disastrous event into the first step towards an absolutely fabulous future! It is never too late to start and it is always too early to quit.
Any idiot can handle crises – it’s the daily life that bores the hell out of me.
-Antov Tjekov-
I grow up in a working class family. My father worked the railroads and my mother ( a nurse) died when I was seven years old. My father and my grandmother took good care of me as I grew up. And we always had food on our table. When I got my first “real” job with Ericsson as a Electrical engineer testing their telefone exchanges for different markets I got surprised as my salary did not take me through the month!? The first year I run out of money in the middle of the month and was saved by the frozen “blodpudding” I had stored in my freezer. Blod pudding was the sheapest food you could buy. But was it truly hardship? … Na
But maybe this is why I work with rather big problems. Helping companies to grow when there is problems and issues on owner, boar and CEO level is hard ... and it is the way I like it
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
–Kahlil Gibran -
But it is the way it is and it is true, no matter how many times we turn around …we still have our ass behind us!
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.