Yesterday, my coaching friend was venting to me about a shitty prospective client experience. Also…my car died. The engine completely gassed out. What a day.
With my friend and her possible client, they had made an agreement and when she called to set up the first payment, she discovered that this prospective client blocked her on Messenger and was ducking all her calls.
She asked me what I thought.
How I felt about that situation is exactly how I feel about my car dying:
Naturally frustrated…but empowered.
Shitty, wildly inconvenient, and aggravating circumstances are guaranteed in our lives. Meaning, we have absolutely zero control over when they will occur (the definition of inconvenient).
What we do have control over, however, is how we handle and what we learn from these events.
She will have more frustrating ordeals with clients. I will have more car troubles.
But now, we’ll both be better equipped to take action and respond with cooler emotions under the stress.
Now she knows how to reach out with love and respectfully call a person out. Now I know how to simultaneously schedule a car tow and mechanic appointment.
Don’t wish things were easier. Wish you were better. Jim Rohn