Seize the Moment
Long ago an investor relations consulting client of mine, banker Edmond Safra, shared with me his philosophy on market changes. At the time, in the late ’70s, the markets faced uncertainty due to an OPEC oil-pricing event that affected interest rates, industry-wide prices, and a wholesale freeze in hiring coupled with downsizings. “Whether there is upward or downward movement in the markets there is money to be made. The only thing that would be a catastrophe is a static market,” Safra opined. His words have remained with me. Hiring areas may shift but activity follows the course of the change. Re-directing your attention to determining where your abilities are valued requires this awareness.
What Safra understood as a fifth-generation banker with a family legacy of lending to Ottoman Empire merchants along the trade routes of the caravans is no less true today. There are inevitable cycles to life rather than the unvarying upward straight-line graph we would seemingly prefer. What he also understood was that the way to create revenue had to change with the contours of market need. Accepting this is not always easy; integrating a bridge from past to future into your strategy takes time and patience. The process may be energizing even if frustrating and difficult; the process allows you to explore uncertainty and emerge with a plan that aligns with opportunities that are right for you in the new reality.
Markets, by their nature, are volatile and often unsure of direction. The static nature of waiting can certainly be emotionally challenging, yet the ability to create something new for your life in dramatically improved ways often comes out of originally unwelcomed and externally driven events. It is only through hindsight that we may see that these dark moments of uncertainty contain the seeds of our breakthroughs to new opportunities. These moments of change allow innovation in the markets and within your life. The outcome may be previously un-imagined yet may present you with a better-suited life and revenue stream. Income may be derived from a mix of skills which emphasize important areas of your focus which can now be integrated to revitalize you.
It is helpful in life to look forward and tap into this wisdom to find a route to satisfaction. Say YES-TODAY!©. Perhaps you will take small incremental steps in a process toward a good direction. Perhaps there will be a quantum leap via an intuitive insight or unexpected synchronicity that places you in exactly the right path.
Just as randomness can upset our standard courses, it can also bring us our own version of winning a life lottery. Finding contentment in a new way of expressing our life work energies wouldn’t be possible without the mother of all inventions: necessity. Contact Gloria Waslyn to explore new ways to look at your current situation so that you are best able to discover the ways to express your possibilities with acceptance and excitement.
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