So we are finally home today! My wife is down, but not out! It is a hard road to recovery but we have so much to look forward to. It has been tough, but not compared to what many others are recovering from, or dying from. We are counting our blessings and appreciate all we have, and all the life we have to live ahead of us.
Sitting in the hospital for six days as allowed me to catch up on some reading, actually reading, as I typically listen to one or two audio books per day, for the past few years. I was able to read 5 books in 5 1/2 days.
In reading these books some lessons were learned. In Succeed and Grow Rich Through Persuasion – Learning from adversity – Adversity is a part of life. Every act, situation, or choice of our lives contains cause and effect. In adversities we have situations in which we are made very much aware of the effect. The cause may be known, or it may be elusive or incomprehensible. We experience a very personal, significant reaction, a strong emotion is stirred within us, and we ask, “Why?”. Every adversity carries within it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. If we can capture this truth, and can accept the fact that this universe is governed by immutable laws which are part of a creative force, no matter how difficult it may be to see the reason – then we can ride out an storm which besets our lives. Your attitude in time of adversity determines much of its eternal effect on your life – for good or ill.
In The Secret what stood out… ‘This is your life, and it’s been waiting for you to discover it! Up until now you may have been thinking that life is hard and a struggle, and so by the law of attraction you will have experienced life as hard and a struggle. Begin right now to shut to the universe, “Life is easy! Life is so good! All good things come to me!”
A great read was If Life Is A Game These Are The Rules. I will probably read this book again, and again, and then again with a pen and notebook!
While I was sitting there 14 hours a day with my wife one chapter of the book really resonated with me. It had to due with fairness.
Before the surgery, once we found out that my wife had a brain tumor the immediate question she had was WTF, why me? And questions of how this could have happened to her and why did it happen to her; it’s not fair, was something mentioned over and again.
But the lesson taught here came before the surgery even began, when Ahmad, an employee of ours had responded to me once he had learned the news of my wife’s diagnosis – ‘May Allah bless you”, and he quickly added, “however you live in the greatest country in the world, with the best healthcare system and doctors in the world, so surely your wife will be ok.”
This led me to immediately think, even before ‘knowing’ what the outcome would be, that we were in fact luckily.
The quote on Fairness in If Life Is A Game These Are The Rules that taught me the lesson through this experience was – “I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.”
The surgery left my wife with a tough road ahead of us, in lots of pain, unable to walk or even see yet, but other patients in the hospital weren’t ever going home.
How lucky were we indeed.
Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff…and it’s all small stuff
In Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff…and it’s all small stuff reading chapter 26 – “Set Aside Quiet Time, Every Day” what I realized is that I rarely have a moment of Quiet Time, true quiet time; not listening to an audio book, thinking of other projects, clients, work to be completed, family life, friends, goals, dreams, etc…
I couldn’t even remember the last time I quieted my mind and just tuned out. So that is exactly what I did. It lasted about 10 minutes or so, and I fell asleep!
I was quickly woken to nurses needing to change IV bags, take vitals, and run other tests, but this is something I am going to continue working on…getting some quality quiet time into my life moving forward!
Another ‘lucky’ thing to point out as well was that out of all the rooms we could have obtained, we had one with an awesome view of the Hudson river and the George Washington Bridge. Unfortunately she could not enjoy the view, but when she gets better I will take her for dinner in the Manhattan, somewhere over looking the Hudson River, so she can enjoy the view as well!
I will be working from my home office for the next few weeks, caring for all of her needs, and keeping the ship steaming forward.
As always we have some really exciting projects we are working on, have some great domain names we will be offering for lease, and have a small portion of our portfolio we might be putting up for sale. I looking forward to sharing more info on these projects and domain names soon.
