There will come a day, when it all goes horribly wrong and no matter what you do, you just can not find a way forward or a way out because you have just taken the biggest hit of your life .
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I've been there many times in my life and I've fallen and hit rock bottom, felt the pain of the soul so badly that I couldn't quite get back up. I couldn't navigate my way forward because everything I believed in was shattered in an instant.
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One thing I have learnt about life is that day will come and it is unavoidable whether it's your business, losing your job, losing your partner or a loved one or whether it's the pain of failure or regret...the storm will come.
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Yes, you will grow, you will become wiser and stronger in time and you will become a force of nature that can face the most ferocious of storms but right now, you have to pick up a million shattered pieces that lay next to you on the hardest of floors.
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So what do you do the morning after the storm, after you have lost all hope, lost your sense of certainty and lost your way?
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You have to find it within yourself, somehow and some way to get back up and that is no easy task when you have experienced the pain of the soul and everything around you is falling apart like some sort of B grade disaster movie.
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You have to protect yourself against the downside and the only way to do that is to ensure you have a plan and a playbook for the day after the storm.
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A plan that has been written well in advance of the coming storm, so that you know in exact detail the routine that you will run for next few days and weeks that will allow you to not only survive the toughest hit of all but also help you to get back on your feet by yourself.
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You will have to protect yourself, when you are most weak and vulnerable and having a default setting that you can run will help you to continue through the fog and allow you to focus your mind, body and soul enough to just keep moving forward, no matter how small those steps may be.
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The hits will come, but don't ever let them break you!
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