• I had a good business
• I had a wife and kids
• I had everything and now I have nothing but guilt so why should I give a damn?
• My life is nothing.
The great thing about his outburst was, I had areas to work on and a had a tiny bit of knowledge of his situation. I said this to him this questions.
1. What do you do when you have a flat tyre on a car? Change it! 2. What do you do when you drop a glass on the floor? Clear away the pieces 3. What do you do when you can’ t get a result? Try another idea 4. What do you do when you arrive at your destination? Create another 5. What happens when you stop watering the lawn? Some of it dies
You just need to turn the water on again. Today the tap is turned on and no water is running through it.
• If you hit the tap and loosen the washer the water will start to run.
• If you change the washer and clean it out you, flush out an answer.
He was silent. In fact I thought he may have hung up and I was talking to myself, but after a period he asked,
Will it be that easy? My answer was, if you let it be!
The interesting thing about challenges is we let them consume us. Our whole concentration is all about poor me. Like the tyre, we have to change it to move forward. Likewise with our thinking.