Four strategies for turning adversity to advantage.
By Robert and
Jeantte Lauer
Julio Iglesias was
a professional soccer player in Madrid when a car crash ended his
career and left him paralyzed for a year and a half. A sympathetic
nurse gave Iglesias a guitar to help pass the time in the hospital.
Through he had no prior musical aspirations, Iglesias went on to
become a huge success in the pop-music field.
Iglesias accident
marked a watershed in his life, a turning point after which
everything changed. A watershed can come in the form of an illness,
an accident or a random encounter; it can be any event , positive or
negative , that significantly affects the course of a person's life.
After interviewing 632 people, we've come up with the four
strategies for mastering life's unpredictable moments and
transforming them into opportunities for growth:
ASSUME
RESPONSILBILTY FOR YOURSELF
