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3 Keys - Turning Adversity Into Opportunity

Ric BaiBy Ric Bai
Jan 2, 2009
If you look at a glass of water do you see it as "Half Full or Half Empty"? Do you view another day as a Opportunity or a another drag watching the clock tick slowly in a job you hate. It's a situation many face and the stresses that we encounter on a daily basis.

So what makes some people always seem to have a smile on their faces even when times are Bad? It's called "Choices" you have heard many times turning a negative into a positive.

I had a friend who at the age of 38 had Cancer. He had a wife of 16 years and two children ages 10 and 12. While I was feeling sorry for Him and His family He was enjoying the time he had left. You would have thought I was the one with Cancer.

The time we had together were lessons I will never forget. The one outstanding statement I'll always remember is "It's not how long you live, It's how you live". This coming from a man who had every right to be mad at the world.

My friend Paul was certainly the expert because I didn't have a clue what is was like to be dying.

He left many words of wisdom and certainly changed the way I looked at this "Uncertain Temporary Condition" we call Life.

From this and my own personal battle with Health I formulated three Keys to transform Adversity into Opportunity....

1. Knowledge - needed to find Solutions
2. Experience - your failures and successes leading to Solutions
3. Opportunity - taking your Solutions to the marketplace

In my own fight against Health I can't tell you how many times I failed to find a solution. It was the failures that motivated me to continue knowing the solution was out there. It seems contradicting, but eliminating each possible solution meant one step closer to the solution. The accumulation of Knowledge was better than any University could teach because it was personal.

The opportunity part has now become a business. This is the message I extend to you, are you viewing the glass "Half empty or Half Full" I hope it's the latter.
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