How To Maintain Clarity

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself. D.H. Lawrence

?I had just come from a couple of meetings on Prince Edward Island, and I was on my way to Bathurst in northern New Brunswick for another meeting, and I was feeling like I was on a roller coaster.?There was so much going on in my business that I was having a hard time focusing on priorities.?This lack of focus was hurting both my personal as well as my business productivity.?I was going nowhere, and I was going there fast.?Oh, I was applying all of the principles that I knew to reduce the level of stress that I was feeling, but some of it was still getting through.?I had become short tempered with my family, and I had lost it with a client as well.?So, while my business was growing, my stress was growing right along with it.?I felt like something had to break, and it had to break soon.?As I was driving along feeling sorry for myself, it was then that I experienced my metaphor.

?It looked like something directly out of a science fiction movie.?Hovering directly over the bridge to Prince Edward Island like a shroud was the blackest rain cloud that I have ever seen. I come from Newfoundland, and I have seen my share of rain clouds in my day, but this one was king!?From a distance you could see the rain falling in a blanket of grey mist that devoured all in its path.?What made this scene even more stunning was the fact that this was the only cloud in the sky.?All around and as far as you could see was a clear brilliant blue sky, except for this one patch of black that was moving ominously across the bridge and across the Northumberland straight.?So dramatic was this cloud, that everyone on the bridge in front and behind me slowed down to a crawl to look at it.?

?As I continued across the bridge, both the cloud and I advanced towards each other for an unavoidable rendezvous.?It was so eerie, one minute I was in the sun with unlimited vision, and the next I was blanketed by a ravenous torrent that devoured everything in its path.?And then, like turning on the light after a dreadful nightmare, it was gone and I was back in the sunshine.?The roads were dry, and the sky was blue.?All that remained of the storm was the memory in my rearview mirror. As I drove on, I couldn’t help but focus in on the wonderful metaphor that I had just experienced, and I sat transfixed by it’s meaning for me.?

?I’m pretty sure that we all have had moments of despair and anxiety because something didn’t go exactly as we had imagined it,?and then,?after the seemingly endless rain of gloom, the sun always seems to shine.?Sure, in life, we will always have these moments of darkness that we feel we will never emerge out of, but with the right determination, and the awareness that “this too shall pass”, we can soon be on our way to success and achievement.?Remember that failure is never final, unless we think it is.?

?Today, please remember that it’s easy to pile pity upon ourselves because something is not going right or is not working out the way that we want it to.?Resist the temptation to feel sorry for yourself, stay focused on the blue sky surrounding the dark clouds in your life, and before you know it, you will be wearing your sunglasses again, and moving towards your goals with your troubles only a memory in the rearview mirror.

That's when you'll find clarity.

?Make an impact today!

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