International Performance Specialist, Dr John Demartini

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How do you get through tough

can either bend or break.

times, struggles, and disappointments? Sometimes the pain is

Resilient people encounter

so great that it’s difficult to

storms too. The difference is they

understand how you’ll make it

encounter the storms like the

through another day. When you’re

palm tree. If you are resilient you

sad and hurting it’s almost

can survive any storm no matter

impossible to see what good will

how devastating! The palm tree’s

come from a situation that brought

resilience fascinated me and

you so much unhappiness.

although there are many things

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we can learn from them, two

While I was watching a documentary

important facts stood out for me:

on the devastation caused by a

hurricane, I couldn’t help but notice that everything was gone,

but the palm trees stood tall.

Palm trees bend they

While the storm was raging, the

don’t break. Nobody likes

wind blew the palm trees right to

change. Change is hard,

the ground and it looked like they

unfamiliar and often overwhelm-

were going to snap, however,

ing. Change happens just like a

they didn’t. Sometimes storms

hurricane. It is sudden, its quick

happen. There is nothing you can

and it disrupts our equilibrium.

do about it. When storms hit we

When we don’t have a strong

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e-MAGAZINE

Issue 10 | NOV 2011

Your mate, Sir Peter Charles Leitch

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