A very smart friend of mine is sharing some worthy sentiments from someone he admires, which I not only agree with, but live by — and I recommend that you do too.
Harder Times
These are harder times than we’ve become accustomed to and as with anything else, are exacerbated by uncertainty. At times like this it’s good to remind each other of that which we know, but perhaps because the ideas are so simple and fundamental, we forget:
1. Things are never as bad as they, or the media, make them seem.
The economists that we listen to (and remain reassuringly consistent regardless of the news) tell us that the markets will begin to improve in February and that the stocks don’t fall unless people don’t buy. And people buy because they are convinced that stock prices will increase.
2. What you do in the hard times will result in greater rewards than what you do in the good times.
Difficult times make or break businesses, careers – and families. Make your own success by not getting distracted by the times and focusing on what is important, what you have to do. You’ll benefit from being clear headed and conveying stability in these times, and it will benefit those around you too.
3. The best times follow the worst times.
This too shall pass. There can’t be good times without bad times. Almost 3,000 years ago Solomon recognized that there is “A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away.”
And although these are hard and uncertain times, we need not mourn. So make time to dance.
D Sanders
