Good Morning,
Yesterday, while shopping at Target for groceries and stuff, I was talking to the checkout clerk who had opened up her register because there was a back up of people checking out.
She mused that throughout the day, people will just show up in waves at the checkout.
There is no pattern, you see people coming in, but they checkout at different times, depending on how much stuff they bought, how long they looked for it, how long they reviewed and compared it, etc.
I shared working in a call center is the same way. We get spikes of calls coming from people which can see all but random. Sure if there is an outage, we will get a spike depending on how many people are impacted, but often there are spikes because people in different parts of the world, in different roles, doing different work, etc., just decided to call.
These waves seem to also impact our lives. That is, there are days that are just busy for no apparent reason, things just happen all around us and keep us moving from sun up to sun down. And there are days that it is just slow. I like those days.
Waves can last days, months, or years.
And like standing on the beach of an ocean, how we prepare or brace ourselves against the waves often determines who we stand up to them, or get knocked over.
Life is like that too.
The more we prepare for life, by learning and growing daily, the better we embrace ourselves to withstand the waves the come our way in life.
Through my years of reading, learning and doing, I have found that I have a greater ability to handle the waves that seems to come no matter how hard I try to slow down my life.
How are you doing when the waves come?
What do you do to prepare?
What should you be doing if you keep finding yourself knocked over by the latest wave?
Sanford Berenberg
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