Yesterday, I went to buy milk. To my surprise, the supermarket is closing within the next 4 weeks. It is the second supermarket within a 5 mile radius, that I know of, that is closing. Like in your blog, I heard numerous employees who had just been notified this week saying, “What am I going to do?” The reality is that no one – in any industry – is exempt, even in the best of times. Right now, we all know that we are not in the best of times.

We need to ensure that Me, Inc. becomes as diversified as some of the major corporations.

Strange, go back a few decades and the focus was on cultural diversity, go back one or two and thye focus was on stock investment diversity, take a look now, and it is personal income diversity. Maybe we need to see the common trend – after all, all diversity means is to approach life with an open mind.

Good observations.

Tom

P.S. Would you like to sell cards for my new catering business?

To tell the tale of my life’s journey would take a bit of time and space here; and, it’s not really necessary nor to the point of this post.

What is the point of this post is that what, often, seems as a set back, change of career, a total 180 shift in expectations and “goals” can almost always be made into that “get lemons, make lemonade” cliche.

If I hadn’t been escorted to the door that day, if that contract had been renewed, if … if … if … However, my point (again) is that, while most of us have goals, desires and what we think is going to be our life’s work, what comes later today or tomorrow or sometime later down the road is, quite often, totally unexpected or only slightedly intuited. And, the question, then, becomes … what are you going to do … now?!

What (I suggest) you should not do is: be afraid, have as your first reply “No” to new ideas, what may appear to be unusual suggestions or in any other way(s) that limits, blocks or in any manner curtails your exploring or putting to your very best “use” of this opportunity that you’ve been given (asked for or not) to make new decisions, new choices and explore new possibilities that, hitherto, you “put aside” because they were too “impractical”, “too fanciful”, or that you felt you couldn’t have taken on at an earlier time in your life.

In other words, THIS might be the time to do that thing that you’ve always wanted to do but were afraid to do.

Don’t get me wrong, though. I’m not a Pollyanna — these can also be exceedingly difficult times, as well. However, follow your heart’s desire, bring to bear all your resources – both within yourself and from very trusted friends and family; and, then, with your best attentions and well-considered criteria … go! Even if you “fail” — you didn’t truly fail because you tried, learned a bit more about yourself – and, that’s always good — every day.

Buona fortuna!

Cheers!

My wife used to work for a large company. She moved departments into a sales role. On her last day in the old department (where she had done VERY well in her job), her soon to be former boss told her “you are making a mistake. You do not have what it takes to succeed in sales” —- Over the next four years she was the top local salesperson three times, and was on the short list for “sales person of the year” for the whole national company.

Who is someone to say what another person is or is not cut out to do. Success in business comes from inside your core. Everyone reading this should go for their dream.

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Viktor E. Frankl

Great blog….have a great weekend….

Slainte
Gordon

1. Take action. Even small actions can lead to big goals.
2. Have a plan. The plan can change, but you need a baseline of some sort to do evaluations.
3. Put YOU into all of it.

You can’t do that in a publicly owned corporation. It’s tough. But, when you keep on going with your own business and see where it takes you, things start to happen. You build on that.

Nice going, Jason! You learned to follow the goal wherever it takes you, not the process that forces you into something that might not work.