10: [PERSPECTIVE] Lemonade

Keeping It Real | Resort Entrepreneurs

“What are you doing with your lemons?”

After several years of rotting lemons, I’ve learned that no matter how much you try to suck it up, a lemon will always be sour when consumed solo. Instead of digesting those unpalatable fruits thrown your way all by themselves, try adding a little sweet surrender to the mix. You may just end up with lemonade.

Lemons appear daily. It could be a middle-of-the-night call that leads to despair. It could be an article read that impacts you personally. It could be an uninvited intruder in your home or an uninvited guest at lunch. Maybe it’s a good deal gone bad. Or, simply an unimaginable tweet that ruins your day.

When life throws you lemons (which it will — and by the way, expect them to appear one right after another with little respite to get your attention and enact change), you may be tempted to gulp them down, sour face and all, to make them go away quickly. But whatever you do, don’t ignore them. If you set them aside to avoid confrontation, they’ll just end up rotting everything they touch.

Expect the unexpected and be prepared with a recipe to make life sweet again. Reflect on what happened. When you take the time to observe, you’ll discover the hidden gem or the lesson to be learned — knowledge that wouldn’t be gleaned otherwise had you let your lemons rot. Instead, you just might become a lemon lover: someone who actually grows from the sour messages sent your way.

Trust and Surrender.

Aren't most of the problems we encounter in life geared towards one thing: trust and surrender? They teach us to put our faith in God by reminding us that we don't have any control — contrary to what our ego says. Sure, we may pretend otherwise. Delusions and denial appear as peacekeepers until reality kicks in and you're back in the grip of panic. [...}

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