Kicking and Screaming ..

Unfair things happen in life. You might be diagnosed with a disease, demoted for a mistake you didn't make, the ref might make a bad call, an agreement might be broken, a partner might let you down.

Our instinct is to fight these unfairnesses, to give in if there's no choice, but to go down kicking and screaming! We want to make it clear that we won't accept injustice easily, we want to teach the system a lesson, we want them to know that we're not a pushover.

But will it change the situation? Will the diagnosis be changed, the outcome of the situation be any different?

What if, instead, we went at it happy and smiling? What if we walked into our four-year prison sentence determined to learn more, do more and contribute more? What if we saw the derailment of one path as the opportunity to grow or to invent or to find another path?

This is very difficult work, but it seems far better than the alternative.
-thanks to Seth Godin once again!