Master Your Mindpower by Stéphane Schafeitel

Author:Stéphane Schafeitel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Success Training Publishing
Published: 2020-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

The Mindset Reset

Shalee

“Breath is the link between the body and the mind.”

While I was still on a high from finishing the marathon and giving my body the time it so needed to heal, I was hit with an unexpected upset. About a month prior, I had graduated from college with a degree in graphic design, and I was hired full-time with a great salary and benefits at the dot-com company that I had been interning at for the previous two years. The company and the position I was promoted to was my absolute dream scenario. I was on top of the world! Everything was coming together that I had worked so hard for. All the late nights (or should I say early mornings) until 2 or 3 a.m. perfecting my design projects (after training for the marathon in the evenings) had finally paid off, and I had made it!

This company’s set-up mimicked what I imagined working at the Google campus to be like. We were in a snazzy building with a bunch of young, fun, and quirky people looking to make their mark on the world. There was a full-size basketball court in the warehouse to use at will, a ping-pong table, a nap room, a café with daily breakfast, and a barista on-site, a full gym, and a locker room with showers, weekly yoga classes, massage therapists, and 4 o’clock Fridays. Oh, and I can’t forget the contests that featured prizes and perks like a fully hosted, catered, and chartered trip to the Bay Area to watch a San Francisco Giants game at PacBell Stadium. During the game, the executive team had to run and get the staff hot dogs and beers at our beck and call! It felt like a dream until it became a nightmare. 2001 hit, and as the dot-com bubble burst, so did my new sparkly, shiny position. I was let go in a round of layoffs just a month after getting hired full-time.

Some would say, no big deal, you’re barely 22, and you have a world of opportunity ahead of you. That’s not how it felt. I felt like I was punched in the gut, and the wind was knocked out of me. I couldn’t imagine working for another company. The team I worked with had built such comradery, the mentors who trained me up from an intern to junior designer were some of the best in the field. We were a family, and it had been perfect.

It took me a little bit of time; however, I realized I had to embrace the suck and figure out what was next. Life goes on. My best friend’s sister, Michelle, had just moved up to beautiful Lake Tahoe, just an hour out of Reno. The three of us had previously lived together before I got laid off. She would tell me about these adventurous mountain bike rides she was doing in the middle of the week with a group of her new guy friends. It sounded so exciting and fun.

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