In order to have a meaningful and successful Life after Defeat, Step 1 is to separate Who YOU ARE from WHAT HAPPENED (the event). Now the next steps:
- Take Time to Reflect
- Avoid far reaching decisions while you are ‘feeling blue.’
- Choices under such conditions are likely to be
- emotion driven,
- ill advised, and
- wrong.
- Choices under such conditions are likely to be
- Learn from the experience.
- Who to trust
- What to do
- A better way
- Avoid far reaching decisions while you are ‘feeling blue.’
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- Keep Things in Perspective
- The Time Perspective
- There may be other opportunities.
- Take the long view.
- How will this look one, two, five, or ten years from now?
- How will this look from the other side of eternity?
- You may have gone through this in the past,
- remember how you made it through then?
- You can do it again!
- remember how you made it through then?
- The ‘Others’ Perspective
- In the past your ‘win’ meant others lost!
- Your experience may not be the best,
- but it is not the worst either.
- Others have survived such things
- so can you!
- The ‘God’ Perspective
- He lives, he sees, he knows, he understands, and
- he loves YOU!
- He is in control
- He does not make mistakes
- All Things Are Possible with him
- He lives, he sees, he knows, he understands, and
- The Time Perspective
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- Consider Alternatives
- Do it again!
- Success sometimes (often) comes only after several tries
- ‘Third time is the charm’
- Believe!
- Adjust Your Line of Attack (approach)
- More and better preparation
- Note the ‘signs’ along the way and make adjustments
- Change Direction
- You may not be a fighter pilot but
- you will be able to design the planes they fly in
- You may not qualify or be approved to be a doctor
- but you will be an excellent nurse practitioner or
- a medical technician, or a surgical nurse, etc.
- You may not qualify to become an engineer
- but you will be an excellent and successful mechanic!
- You get the idea!
- You may not be a fighter pilot but
- Do it again!
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- Pray! Believe! Rejoice!
You can Do this – Let’s Do this!
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