The Readiness for Life’s Trials: Embracing the Tough Seasons

I expect life and business to be tough. If they’re not, I’m pleasantly surprised.

Major personal trials occur once every ten years or so – a serious illness or injury, a sudden bereavement, a betrayal or the loss of a major client etc.

So too, the world goes through a convulsion every ten years or so: the 1990’s great recession, September 11th, the global financial crisis, the Covid pandemic etc.

Sometimes a personal and global trial coincide – as they did, for example, for those who lost a family member during Covid. This type of double trial is difficult to endure.

Worth noting that you don’t normally feel the full brunt of the first two personal/global trials of your life as parents generally act as a shock absorber. Even the third trial, depending on when it occurs and whether or not you’re still living at home, may only be partially felt.

But the fourth and fifth trials of your life, you will almost certainly feel the full impact of. And when you do, you will begin to appreciate why no one who gets to live past fifty without a few scars.

Trials and tribulations must come. If it be not now, yet they will come – the readiness is all.