….and her Name was Wilma

Here’s November…and little did I know I’d be talking Hurricanes again this late into the season.  I was hit by the outer bands of Wilma, however, other than bushes and trees, no other damage.

Miami-Dade County is a different story.  I still have a lot of family and friends in South Florida and it’s incomprehensible that there’s close to 600,000 customers without electricity, and much of the south end of Miami, will not be getting their power back for one month!  Can you imagine living like that?  Folks are leaving Miami in caravans just to go to places where there is electricity, or buy gas, as most of stations with gas, don’t have electricity either, so they can’t dispense it.  The Governor is encouraging residents to drive to Tallahassee to purchase gasoline, back-up generators, living essentials, etc.

From all this, I received a lesson in resourcefulness from my 95 year old, Aunt Rosa, who lives in the Miami area where electricity is not expected for another month.  Inasmuch as I’m worried for her, as she’s nursing a post-op hip replacement, she’s not worried a bit.  She spoke to me with the certainty of a prophet.  Is she scared?  Sure she is!  But she’s also very wise and she trusts the infinite power of the Universe and believes in the kindness of strangers.

I’ll tell you what my Aunt Rosa did: She got “resourceful!”  She gathered her resources, little as they may be, and asked everybody to reach out to their own resources, so they would all help each other as they helped her as well.  She managed to do all of this from the comfort of her wheelchair!

She reminded me it was more important to be “resourceful” than to have resources.  She looked inward and found courage, determination, commitment and compassion.   She pulled all those “inner resources” together,  talked to as many people as she could, who in turn, talked to as many people as they could…and they all  got “resourceful”: They all found a way to get what they wanted.

This is true in business as well.  When you feel things are closing in on you, when money is tight, when one of your biggest clients is unable to pay for your services due to circumstance outside the realm of their control, when things are not going your way, look inward, remember your big dream, your vision, creativity, find your courage, your passion, your purpose, your determination, commitment, compassion…and…

GET RESOURCEFUL: Your life will forever change.  The Leader in you will rise up and rule!