“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to
succeed is strong enough”.
Og Mandino
When a crisis hits most of us react in one of three ways. There
are those pessimists among us who roll over and give up (the glass is half
empty), the optimists who keep believing that everything will be ok (the glass
is half full) and the opportunists who embrace change and spring into action (they
drank the contents of the glass while the pessimist and optimist were arguing
it out).
13 year old Shelby Grebenc is definitely one of life’s
go-getters. At the tender age of 9 her Mum Nancy was diagnosed with MS which
became so severe she had to go and stay in a nursing home. Shelby’s dad
Jonmichael tried to keep the family afloat despite the loss of Nancy’s salary
and the mounting medical bills but sadly bankruptcy loomed.
Shelby offered to help and Jonmichael, not wanting to dampen
his young daughter’s spirit, told her to do what she could.
This enterprising school girl had an idea to start selling
eggs, borrowed some money from her grandmother and bought chickens. Four years on Shelby has 135 birds, turns over $15,000 per
year, her family home is safe and she became the youngest farmer in America to
win the Animal Welfare Seal of Approval. The icing on the cake is that Nancy’s
health has improved too.
It’s amazing how resilient the human spirit is and what can
be achieved when we stop resisting what life throws at us and work with it instead.
Then, and only then, can we put all our energies into sourcing a positive
outcome rather than wasting valuable time wishing and hoping the situation had
never happened.
One of my favourite quotes is “it will be alright in the
end. If it isn’t alright, it isn’t the end”, and you know what? it’s absolutely
true.
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