| Happy Sunday :)
First of all, I want to wish a happy Father's Day to all you dads!!! Although I am not too much into artificially created holidays, I do want to stress what an important role a father plays in a kid's life. Having a father figure in your life is a real blessing...
I wanted to share today how this past year was a very challenging one in business perspective, a year in which I was closing down a business I ran for 18 years.
As I told before the closing didn't go as smoothly as I had planned, on the contrary. On a certain moment, things looked so bad that I could have lost everything I had.
And that's when it got interesting. This opportunity gave me enormous insights and made me grow in a way I had never imagined.
For a long time, I kept fighting to keep the business and have things turn out the way I wanted it. I wanted to sell, have a certain price and move on then.
Everything that could possibly go wrong, went wrong so that at a certain moment complete bankruptcy came in sight. And at that very moment I surrendered, I bowed and accepted my fate.
And it is then that the most miraculous things started to happen, that same night someone called to buy the office building, I got offered a wonderful coaching opportunity and someone else offered to help us out of this situation...
So the only purpose of this whole extremely painful and difficult period made me realize that letting go of your worries, your stress, your plans and surrender to a higher power or purpose is the most powerful thing to do.
It made me realize that I am a valuable human being (even if my standards of success are not met at a certain moment).
It made me grow so hugely, it cracked the shell open I held myself hostage in. I am at a point now that I feel so much compassion for all my struggles and especially for the struggles from the people around me.
All I want to say to you today is, we are all in this together, we are peddling in our little boat on the big ocean of life, and it is the pain and suffering that will make you grow, there is no other way. Success without any failure will only make you complacent and blind.
Our growth as a human being, letting behind negative beliefs, guilt, shame, supporting others with love and compassion, making this world a more beautiful and kind place is our true purpose.
We all grow at a different pace in a different way and that's ok.
I have put lots of love, kindness and compassion in these words and I hope they will benefit you.
Sending you love, Barbara.
PPS And I found this to be very helpful for your personal growth.
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