creating balance

In late 2007 I was deeply entrenched in creating a business that I believed in with all my being. We had worked with an architect, had building plans, created beautiful marketing materials and even had multiple sales prior to one piece of ground being broken. Then two things happened: first, we ran into a costly construction issue and second, the economy took a nose-dive. One of those two things happening may not have been enough to throw the plans into the gutter, but both were devastating. The realization that our plans were in the gutter did not come immediately. Our business was very slowly withering away and I just refused to accept it. I felt it for months, but I denied it. Then came a day when I overheard my business partner on the …

Are you managing your emotions? Or are your emotions managing you? One way to answer this is by listening to the feedback from the people you love and respect in your life. Are they on edge when you're faced with a stressful situation? Are they bracing themselves for your next reaction? Another way to consider this is to imagine you are stopped at a traffic light. You see the car behind you approaching a bit too quickly to stop in time. You watch helplessly as their front end meets the back end of your car. What happens after that? How do you react? Is it positive? Would you rather not say? Most of us don't have to imagine this scenario; we have lived through it - hopefully without injury and with minimal damage to our car. But fender …

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