Some days are good days.
Some days are not so good.
Yet, on balance, if you look at your life, you can sometimes see that what looked like a bad thing, at the time, turned into a good thing.
Here are a few examples from my own life.
I entered into a business with a good friend back in the late 80's early 90's. Things were great. I invented an anti-gravity machine, got a patent, manufactured it, sold it to professional sports teams, clinics, hospitals. Taught seminars - up to 30 or 40 a year - spoke at national and international conferences. All of these things were born out of both that business and our clinic which served as a sort of lab.
Fast forward about five years. My friend comes to me and says he wants a pay raise. He's doing more work than I am (hmmm...really?) and deserves it. I say, "What did you have in mind?" He says, "All the profits from sales of all equipment. Not the seminars (where of course there was almost no profit)." To which I say, "Are you nuts? If I agree to that, how do we pay employees?" He says take it or leave it.
I left it.
He then sued me and the company. Company goes out of business. We part ways. I start over.
That was bad.
Now, at the time, all I could think about was what a lousy situation I ended up with. But, because I had conducted seminars, in the hundreds, I had learned how to teach. So, rght after the split up of my company, I get a call from University of Oklahoma. They want to know if I would like to teach in the PT school.
That was good.
Of course, it turned bad again but more about that another time (and it turned good again too).
This morning I received an email from a former student of mine, Jimmy, who runs a physical therapy clinic in Louisiana.
He got a call from the security company that there was a "disturbance" at his clinic. He runs down there and finds out that someone drove a truck through his wall into his clinic (see the pic above and to the right - that's the wall the guy drove through). Now, that's a bad day. We had some thugs break into our clinic a while 
back and mess some stuff up but a truck? There's no way to cateogrize this, at first glance, except bad.
But life is a river that does not run straight. Around the bend is something else; something new, different, perhaps better.
Maybe Jimmy and his crew will realize they didn't need some of the tools they had or they can rearrange the space in a new and more effective way or who knows. My point is that what looks bad can also turn to good.
I would, however, be misleading you if I didn't mention that I too have a hard time, in the moment and sometimes after, thinking,"Where's the good in this?" when something bad happens (I wrote about this before here ).
It's simple but not easy to do. You have to find a way to change the mental path you're on.
So, Jimmy, hang in there my friend.
It's all good.
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So, I told you recently I had a new business and it's almost ready to be shared with all of you guys. I'm really close. And it's very cool. I decided to wait on launching the Runner's Knee book until I launch the new biz but I will put up a couple of free chapters for you soon so you can get a glimpse of what the book is like.
In the meantime, if you enjoy the View, you might also enjoy my book, The Little Book of Sparks.
You can get a couple of free chapters here and order it here .
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Coming soon!!
Some days are not so good.
Yet, on balance, if you look at your life, you can sometimes see that what looked like a bad thing, at the time, turned into a good thing.
Here are a few examples from my own life.
I entered into a business with a good friend back in the late 80's early 90's. Things were great. I invented an anti-gravity machine, got a patent, manufactured it, sold it to professional sports teams, clinics, hospitals. Taught seminars - up to 30 or 40 a year - spoke at national and international conferences. All of these things were born out of both that business and our clinic which served as a sort of lab.
Fast forward about five years. My friend comes to me and says he wants a pay raise. He's doing more work than I am (hmmm...really?) and deserves it. I say, "What did you have in mind?" He says, "All the profits from sales of all equipment. Not the seminars (where of course there was almost no profit)." To which I say, "Are you nuts? If I agree to that, how do we pay employees?" He says take it or leave it.
I left it.
He then sued me and the company. Company goes out of business. We part ways. I start over.
That was bad.
Now, at the time, all I could think about was what a lousy situation I ended up with. But, because I had conducted seminars, in the hundreds, I had learned how to teach. So, rght after the split up of my company, I get a call from University of Oklahoma. They want to know if I would like to teach in the PT school.
That was good.
Of course, it turned bad again but more about that another time (and it turned good again too).
This morning I received an email from a former student of mine, Jimmy, who runs a physical therapy clinic in Louisiana.
He got a call from the security company that there was a "disturbance" at his clinic. He runs down there and finds out that someone drove a truck through his wall into his clinic (see the pic above and to the right - that's the wall the guy drove through). Now, that's a bad day. We had some thugs break into our clinic a while
back and mess some stuff up but a truck? There's no way to cateogrize this, at first glance, except bad.
But life is a river that does not run straight. Around the bend is something else; something new, different, perhaps better.
Maybe Jimmy and his crew will realize they didn't need some of the tools they had or they can rearrange the space in a new and more effective way or who knows. My point is that what looks bad can also turn to good.
I would, however, be misleading you if I didn't mention that I too have a hard time, in the moment and sometimes after, thinking,"Where's the good in this?" when something bad happens (I wrote about this before here ).
It's simple but not easy to do. You have to find a way to change the mental path you're on.
So, Jimmy, hang in there my friend.
It's all good.
*********************
So, I told you recently I had a new business and it's almost ready to be shared with all of you guys. I'm really close. And it's very cool. I decided to wait on launching the Runner's Knee book until I launch the new biz but I will put up a couple of free chapters for you soon so you can get a glimpse of what the book is like.
In the meantime, if you enjoy the View, you might also enjoy my book, The Little Book of Sparks.
You can get a couple of free chapters here and order it here .
*********
Coming soon!!