Isn’t it frustrating sometimes that when something goes wrong, it can seem impossible to get out!
Or
When we hit a crisis point, bouncing back can not be the best option as you go back to the place that got you to the crisis in the first place….
The answer is to BOUNCE Forward…
Just thought I’d share this…
If you have not got it right… GET IT RIGHT TODAY!!!!
It was a cold afternoon and you could smell the spring in the air. Winter had passed yet sitting there alone in the car with the entire right side of the car ripped off and my bones and flesh exposed to the afternoon sun, I felt cold. I was shivering and sweating at the same time. I was feeling pulses of shivers all over my body that I could not control. Was I going to die? I kept asking myself, was this it? Was this the last ever moment of my life right here? I thought about my two little girls, I thought about how they could comprehend or understand the magnitude of what happened to their Daddy. I thought about my wife, not knowing if I would ever see her again. Flashes of images rushed through my mind, a single mother, the fatherless children, a funeral… I was so sad, not just from the pain but my mind was going at warp speed. I was thinking about everything, what life meant, my friends, my family and my whole life up until now. What could I have done differently? What could I have done better? Why didn’t I try more, why couldn’t I have not taken life for granted to much? Was this really happening was this the end? Are these really the last breaths I would ever take???
No Sam, stop thinking these thoughts, fight, FIGHT, there is still hope…
The pain was taking away every freedom I had within my body. Even the very breath from my lungs was fighting for every ounce of air it could get. My eyelids felt like a ton of bricks, I just wanted to close them and go to sleep… “SAM, SAM STAY AWAKE FOR US” my rescuers yelled, “SAM YOU CAN DO IT, HOLD ON””.
I felt an overcoming fear and darkness, which was suffocating everything that life represented. I was yelling to God to save me, I was telling my rescuers my wife’s number so they could call her and I could say goodbye. The meaning of life and death was suddenly real, so real. Life was becoming no more, “WHAT IS HAPPENING” I yelled as tears ran down my face, “RING MY WIFE, TELL HER I LOVE HER”!
My car had been torn and ripped to shreds on the main highway between Devonport and Launceston Tasmania. Being a large highway, people started to crowd around, as the silhouette of people started to yell and whisper, and that was when I knew that it was serious….
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We have our ups, we have our downs; we have our great moments and we have our crap moments. In business it’s the same, we have our crisis, we have the turning point and then we bounce back. A personal crisis or a corporate crisis, there is cycle that we all MUST go through in order to BOUNCE…
