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A-Rod at camp
My three grandchildren
spent seven weeks at
the Tyler Hill Camp
in Pennsylvania this summer.
The culmination of the seventh
week was “color war,” where two
teams bearing the two colors of
the camp (blue and gold) battle
each other over multiple days of
sports and singing competition.
The highlight of the “color
war” is when they “break it. This
year, the camp brought in (by
helicopter) the legendary Alex
Rodriguez, former New York
Dealing with
the unexpected
Yankees third baseman and one
of the game’s most prolific power
hitters.
A-Rod surprised the 500
campers who had gathered for
a show in the camp’s rec hall. To
cheers and screeches, he took
to the stage and offered advice
to the young people shocked to
see him.
I wanted to share his profound
words with you: “I’ve always
wanted to be a world champion,
and played for almost 25 years,
and what I learned, it takes the
entire group, connected thinking
one way and that’s the winning
way, and that made us a world
champion in 2009.”
One of my favorite sources of inspiration is the
“Morning Juice” newsletter from Investors Bank.
The daily email contains thoughts about the different
challenges you might face any day of the week, and
how to overcome them.
A recent Morning Juice newsletter featured an article
titled “How to Deal with the Unexpected” by Jim Rohn. It’s
about how all of us can not only handle but also embrace
the many changes that life may bring us.
Please read Rohn’s thoughtful advice below. I found it
quite inspirational, and I hope you do too!
In life, the winds of circumstances blow on us all in an
unending flow that touches each of our lives. It’s one thing
to create change. It’s another thing — often unavoidable —
to have change foisted upon you when you don’t expect it.
We all experienced the blowing winds of change. Yet some
of us still manage to reach our intended destinations. What
guides us to different shores is determined by the way we
have chosen to set our sails. The way that each of us thinks
makes the major difference in where each of us arrives.
Unforeseen circumstances happen to us all. We have disappointments
and challenges. We all have reversals and
those moments when, in spite of our best plans and efforts,
things just seem to fall apart. Challenging circumstances are
not events reserved for the poor, the uneducated or the destitute.
The rich and the poor have marital problems. The
rich and the poor have the same challenges that can lead to
financial ruin and personal despair.
In the final analysis, it is not what happens that determines
the quality of our lives, it is what we choose to do
when we discover that the wind has changed directions.
When things change, we must change. We must struggle to
our feet again and reset the sail to steer us toward the destination
of our own deliberate choosing. The set of the sail—
how we think and how we respond—has a far greater capacity
to alter our lives than any challenges we face. How quickly
and responsibly we react to adversity is far more important
than the adversity itself. Once we discipline ourselves
to understand this, we will finally and willingly conclude
that the great challenge of life is to control the process of our
thinking.
Learning to reset the sail with the changing winds rather
than permitting ourselves to be blown in a direction you did
not purposely choose requires the development of a whole
new discipline. It involves going to work on establishing a
powerful, personal philosophy that will help to influence in
a positive way all that you do, think and decide.
If you can succeed, the result will be a positive change in
the course of your income, lifestyle and relationships.
Source: Fall 2018 issue of Success magazine.
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