“LISTS and LIFE LESSONS”
Lists get right down to the essence of things…
They serve to consolidate a lot of information into key points or actionable tasks.
A list can be mundane, such as the necessary ingredients to make a meatloaf.
Or, a list can be of biblical proportions like the Ten Commandments.
What follows is a list of ten different events from my life…
Some good, some not and some that are somewhere in between.
Every event is followed by some life-lessons I took away from each one.
Of course, some of those lessons were not apparent to me right away.
Sometimes it takes a while for certain lessons to make themselves clear.
There were times I was taught something new…
And other times I simply “re-learned” things I already knew but needed to be reminded of.
Life is about learning…
And this list, though brief, taught me plenty.
Event #1 – Getting Married.
Lesson 1: You tend to get what you give.
Lesson 2: That which is valuable should be valued.
Lesson 3: Actions speak louder than words, but words are still really important.
Event #2 – When You Break Your Back.
Lesson 1: Life seldom turns out as expected.
Lesson 2: How you handle adversity teaches you a lot about yourself, sometimes more than you may want to know.
Lesson 3: You can become stronger than you think you can.
Event #3 – When The Company Paying You That 6-Figure Salary Suddenly Goes Away.
Lesson 1: When they say to plan ahead for the unexpected, that’s good advice.
Lesson 2: You probably have way more ‘stuff’ than you actually need.
Lesson 3: If a situation can’t actually kill you, then maybe it’s not as scary as you’d been led to believe.
Event #4 – When You’re a Cop And A Suspect You Are Attempting to Arrest Is Trying To Kill You.
Lesson 1: Sometimes in life you’re a symbol of something to someone else and it’s not actually about you.
Lesson 2: Sometimes in life you’re not a symbol of something to someone else and it is about you.
Lesson 3: Life is short, so fight like hell.
Event #5 – Growing Up Watching Your Mother Get Beaten Over And Over And Over Again.
Lesson 1: Kids can’t make a parent make good decisions.
Lesson 2: Adults sometimes do things that kids will never understand.
Lesson 3: When you’re a kid and you’ve seen a lot of violence, it’s easy to become mad at the world. Don’t.
Event #6 – Having Kids.
Lesson 1: You will never be as good a parent as you wanted to be.
Lesson 2: But that’s okay.
Lesson 3: Try to make what you say line up with what you do.
The world will make a lot more sense to your kids if you can do that.
Event #7 – Making Your First Multi-Million Dollar Sales Presentation.
Lesson 1: Sometimes an opportunity hits before you feel “ready” for it.
Lesson 2: Don’t wait to do things until you feel ready, many opportunities only come by once.
Lesson 3: If you really know what you’re talking about, don’t hold back, let the world know.
Event #8 – When You’re 18-Years-Old And You Wake Up The Next Morning After You Tried To Kill Yourself The Night Before.
Lesson 1: A childhood full of negativity is seldom improved upon by three straight years of drug and alcohol use.
Lesson 2: You are more than your present circumstances.
Lesson 3: Some people, (like me) may need to bottom out before they finally figure out what is missing. [John 3:16]
Event #9 – When You Leave Your High-Paying Job To Go Do Something You Love But You Have No Idea How You’re Going To Make Everything Work.
Lesson 1: It’s okay to try ‘scary’ things.
Lesson 2: If you fail, that’s okay. You’ll still know that you dared greatly and daring greatly is awesome.
Lesson 3: You may succeed, which is likewise awesome.
Also, ‘success’ may not look exactly like what you were expecting.
Event #10 – The Day You Realize You Might Actually Be One Of The Luckiest People You’ve Ever Met.
Lesson 1: Being able to do things you love tends to make you happy.
Lesson 2: The quality of your relationships, particularly those with your significant other…
And children deeply affect your quality of life.
Lesson 3: Pay attention. Life is happening right now and it is amazing.
How many times does it take to learn the same life lesson?
Life is not a checklist.
It is a practice…
Life Lessons
By Mike Gillette
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