Stronger Than The Storm: Proven Strategies To Conquer Fear, Discover Strength and Overcome The Unexpected by Michele Laine

Author:Michele Laine [Laine, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-31T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7: The Power to Change

I’m a “glass is half full” kind of person. I always believe something good will come from any situation. The challenge presented was something we were meant to experience to become who we are today. If you would have told me that we’d experience our series of events when I turned 40, I wouldn’t have believed it. Too much at one time happening, like a movie, because you just can’t make that stuff up! But it happens to all of us in one form or another at some point in our lives.

I didn’t know then that we would travel to hell and back by the time we were through. Trust me, if we’d known of a way to prepare for such catastrophe, we’d have done it. But that’s not how life plays out sometimes. Sometimes we must accept and learn from doing. Learn from the experience while living and feeling every step.

Is it possible to build new dreams after such devastation? Of course! Once we made the decision to let our company go and stop fighting with the bank, we set off into the world unknown. We were tapped out from the emotional loss of so many family members. The continuous battle to save our company drained all our reserves. We had to have faith even when we couldn’t see the outcome.

In the end, stress was not worth losing our own health. We accepted the reality of where life was now, stopped analyzing the “why” of our situation and just let go. This WAS our life now. It was up to us to live it, change it, better it. We were in acceptance for what was.

We recognized the value of being self employed. We put our minds together and strategized a concept for a new business. We needed a backup plan ready in the wings. It would be a way for us to make income while we figured out how the rest of our life would look.

We crafted our “Plan B” and took action on forming a new company. It was a takeoff of what we knew, in a market we were familiar with. So we solved the question, “What would we do for income?” long term. The best part was, we were available to the kids before and after school. We once again had the freedom of managing our own work schedules.

It was a breath of fresh air to be onto a new chapter of our lives. By April 2013, we had moved into a rental house. We started a new business and began to see possibilities and opportunities ahead. I also started a side consulting business six months later to bridge our income gap.

At first, the consulting gig was meant to be temporary, but quickly found its niche among a downed economy, helping businesses downsize or adjust to the changes they were experiencing internally. Just like that, we had duel businesses up and running. By simply taking a leap of faith and jumping upon opportunities as they presented themselves.

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