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…

I have just launched my new USB Bounce Box. Each box contains a 1Gig USB, and has some audio speaking podcasts as well as some of my inspirational music. It also has a taster audio track to my book soon to be released called ‘The Bounce Theory’.

Contents:

This package would make a great present for someone or even for yourself. It will help to realize that we can not take life for granted, but say goodbye to the PAST ’cause the Future is looking better than ever!!!

These will soon be available on my website: But if you want to be one of the first to get one, send us an email at info@samcawthorn.com and you will not only get a discount off the RRP but also a personal message from Sam!!!

Hear from you soon…

The Story of Peng Shuilin
In life we keep complaining about what is or why we don’t have. Half the time we seem dissatisfied, though full-bodied and free to choose. Fat people say,”I want to be slim.” Skinny people say,”I want to be fatter.” Poor people want to be rich and rich are never satisfied with what they have.

Peng Shuilin is 78cms high. He was born in Hunan Province , China .
In 1995, in Shenzhen, a freight truck sliced his body in half.
His lower body and legs were beyond repair.

Read the full article – it’s amazing! Click Here >

When we have a HIT, we can find it HARD to… GET BACK UP

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion.

Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare.

Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary, Impossible is nothing!”

- Muhammad Ali.

Bouncing back CAN happen! It can sometimes SEEM impossible.

Being an artisan, I really love finding creators and innovators that redefine the status quo. So while searching YouTube I found this inspirational guy that redefines disability and he calls it… are you ready… ‘ABILITY’!

Check this out…

My little girls started their Ballet this week at an awesome ballet studio in Sydney. (thanx Grant) So now my 2 girls love ballet and the other night while looking at some ballet clips on youtube… WOW!!!!!

Sometimes in life we think… What tha? When I watched this video it was one of those moments. Oh and if you havn’t heard of TED.com you had better start exploring it as it’s the YouTube of thinkers.

Have a watch and PLEASE, watch it till the end as it GETS BETTER!