“Oh, but your life is always so fascinating,” one of my closest friends said in a voice dripping with sarcasm and envy. During the course of my life I have become accustomed to ‘that tone’ and those feelings from people around me. What I didn’t do until now was respond with: “Hey, it wasn extremely difficult for me to survive the cards I was dealt and even more difficult to succeed at a business I created from nothing. One where for the first 2 years most people thought was: “too good to be true, therefore, it can’t be true. I also added: “You were lucky to have a normal life and never, not once, ever, have to endure the pain that was my shadow from the time I was born until I learned how to turn the bad into good – which was far from easy and which took decades for me to accomplish. I was sharing the news that within one week I was offered three very good opportunities: 1) a reality tv show based on my business; 2) a movie/film based on my life story; and 3) a documentary based on my business. I went on to add that it was downright terrifying to have lived my life and that survival is a day-to-day on-going experience. Surviving a horrific life experience doesn’t happen overnight. I had to teach myself all of my survival skills. No one taught me anything. I learned resilience because I had no other choice. I learned how to adapt to change because that was all I was faced with. I learned how to build a business from nothing into a successful one based on not luck, as most would like to think, but on long and often frustrating 12-14 hour workdays. My friend heard me and apologized. But the lesson here, at least for me, was/is: one doesn’t succeed at anything unless one is willing to jump off a mountain with absolutely zero net beneath you.
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:09:05 +0000
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