This quote by Ryan Holiday has been going through my mind a lot lately.
We recently lost a $100,000 customer, which is a tenth of our business. This is oh, so painful. But I sat down and wrote a list of the hard things I’ve been through. They include:
Moving high schools my sophomore year. From here, that doesn’t look like something “hard,” but at the time, I was self-conscious and felt conspicuous, eating lunch alone, and really didn’t make any friends until the end of that year.
Multiple miscarriages.
My husband lost his job when I was a stay at home mom of 10 years.
Our production manager who had worked at the shop for 25 years gave his notice.
Of course there are other hard things, broken bones, broken hearts, temporary health and financial setbacks, but these are some of the bigger ones I can think of.
I wrote this list to remind me that hard times don’t last forever, and that we get through them, and usually come out the other side stronger, and having learned invaluable lessons. Hard hurts so good.
I can look back and follow this “hard things” list up with the blessings that followed.
Moved high schools sophomore year – Made the best friends I ever could have dreamed of.
Frequent miscarriages – We got to adopt our amazing girl.
Husband loses his job – We become business owners, and I learn so much and get to work with really great people.
We lose our shop manager – We step up and run the shop our way and learn how to delegate and put systems in place, and build a great business.
We lose one of our largest customers – I don’t know, but I trust that something good is coming.
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