Saturday, March 16, 2013

Take charge of your life.


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