Have you ever been the victim of fraud?

(Warning: Slightly longer intro with a recent personal story)

There’s something about hearing the sound of money being drained from your bank account in the middle of the night. Compound that with living in a foreign country, where the rules are not 100% familiar to you and the bleary-eyed brain fog that most of us experience at 1:00 in the morning making it difficult to think straight.

On this occasion, thankfully I was still awake - I had been super late going to bed on this particular night and I can only assume the universe was looking out for me because if I had not been awake, the scenario could have been much different.

I received notice that there had been unusual activity on my bank account and to call the bank right away. Which I did. I was informed that someone had tried to drain my bank account and that they had been successful in taking several thousand dollars and they were continuing to try to take out more.

Whaaaaat??

The bank said they had put a block on my account and that they had requested the bank to not accept the funds so they could try to get it back.

Excuse me, I said, …. “TRY” to get it back? Turns out New Zealand doesn’t have the same protections Canadian banks have in place and there’s no guarantee the money will be returned. (It was - but it was a very stressful 18 hours!)

After a sleepless night, watching my phone receive notice after notice of unusual activity on my bank account, we find out that a number of accounts were hit that night and that the hackers are very smart - in fact there are call centre-sized factories of hackers doing this in expert fashion so they can move funds quickly around the world - with split seconds in different bank accounts so it becomes near impossible to trace and recover the funds.

Ouch.

My husband went into a spiral - What’s the point of working if people can just steal it anyway? While I tried to let it ride - What will be will be, there’s nothing we can do now except get my computer and phone wiped and change all my passwords.

We’ve had so many challenges this past year - in work, business and life – that sometimes it’s hard to know what to let ride and what to push through on. How to know when that “gut instinct” should be listened to or let the facts stack up to inform logical and safe, answers.

What’s your approach to decision-making? Gut instinct or pure fact and logic?

It’s with a bit of that perspective that I wrote this month’s blog post about the importance of having focus and purpose in your life and work, because otherwise, how do you know how to guide your decision-making?

Read on for more resources to support your decision-making, when the path forward can seem unclear. BONUS: there’s a free download for you to work through as well!

Warmly,

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