Life and Business Lessons

#1 WINTER

I don’t know where you caught you in the day, maybe it’s spring for you, maybe it’s summer your though day, maybe it’s harvest your cash in. Personal winter, social winter, economic winter, there is a variety. So what about the winter?

IT ALWAYS COME !

So you got to be prepared. Hopefully you’ve done your homework. You’re ready in prepared for this winter more than you were some others that have coming for your less prepared. From the Bible story (I’m amateur on Bible) but here is what the story teller says : “There were two nice people (not one good and one evil), however, and that is the drama of life, one built his house on the rock, and the other built his house in the sand. TWO NICE PEOPLE.

Meaning it’s possible for nice people to be casual, careless. Sometime you can be careless and lose your life (smoke??), just careless. In your car if you in the intersection street when the lights turn green, you’re better not go. For two or three seconds, waiting for the maniacs that are running at red light, crossing in front of you, even though the light is green. That little extra bit of caution, rather than being aggressive, could barely save your life.
You don’t have to go Iraq to lose your life, you don’t have to evil to lose your life. All you have to be is a little careless at unfortunate moment.

When I was growing up there is cartoon of a little boy, and it’s show this a little boy with a little devil on one shoulder and a little angel on the other shoulder, both whispering in his ear, and the little devil said, “go a ahead and do it, it’ll be okay” and the little angel says “no..no..no..no, it won’t be okay.” How often this occur to all of us?

EVERY DAY !!

The same is true with your health, don’t build on the sand (the same is true with your career, being in business), BUILD ON THE ROCK. Because even nice people can make careless decisions that it accumulate over a period of time. And those could be the winter.

Now here is next : “Some winter are of your making, some are not.” Some are just the winter experiences, maybe the whole country goes through it. It was along time of winter for the Indonesia in 1997 (Asia region). Long winter of political despair, lack of freedom.

But what’s the key to the winter?

Here is this in simple language : “HANGING THERE.” I mean you know, winters don’t last forever, some are difficult, some are easy, but they never last forever. The night always come after the day, but it doesn’t last forever, just a few more hours. And if you hanging there, say your prayers, gather a little strength, you can make it through the winter and the night.