Even after the most destructive fire – life finds a way and transforms the landscape.
On the face of it – being retrenched sounds like a disaster.
But why?
We get accustomed to a way of being. We become settled in our comfort zones. We settle for ‘this is the best we can do’.
We also prefer to listen to all the talk from everyone about ‘how tough it is out there’ and take on everyone else’s fears. And THAT is where we make our biggest mistake.
We listen to other people’s fears.
True – I don’t have kids to worry about and I’m sure that would have an impact on my outlook, but I believe retrenchments are a fantastic opportunity to truly take stock of what we want.
I’m being retrenched. Fact; but now more than ever the phrase ‘we get what we focus on’ is important.
I have a choice: focus on how difficult things could be or choose to believe in the abundance of the universe and do what I need to and allow opportunities to flow.
It’s incredible how people come into your life to help you. I’m already experiencing this. I also love how an idea will suddenly appear in my head. The incredible start to what’s step one in creating a better life.
Thoughts create words
Words create actions
Actions create habits
Habits create character
Character creates destiny
Positivity is my filter I choose to look at everything that happens to me. If your mind is not a fertile breeding ground for positive thoughts to appear then how can you create a positive life?
I’ve been through worse, eight years ago the company I worked for was liquidated. I had no job, limited experience and no vision to create a direction for my life. The world’s economy was in free-fall and my friends in the recruitment industry told me they had no prospects for me. Thankfully, I had tremendous support from my folks to help me through that difficult time.
Jump back three more years and having no idea about who Distell actually were, when recruitment companies asked ‘who are the top 5 companies you’d like to work for’ I listed them every time. Even with a conscious wonder of how I could add value to them.
Enter that loss of my job and I was propelled into a career that enabled me to do just that in a specialised field to not just Distell – but Coca Cola as well.
We can’t see into the future and we have no idea who we’ll meet and what opportunities will present themselves to us.
And therein lies the lesson from that experience: we don’t have to know all the answers; we just have to be open to and believe they will, in fact, happen.
My last day is incredibly on my mother’s birthday – the woman who gave me life.
When I look back to that day in years to come I will see that this was my rebirth.
I see my life like Lego.
Only we don’t have the instructions.
Every experience, work related or otherwise, is another building block added to help create my masterpiece. Each on its own apparently meaningless but truthfully a beautiful opportunity that releases my ability to think creatively on how they fit together; and release the potential to shape my own future.
And together – builds my own unique fun design to play with every day.
I can’t wait for my next block to play with.