On January 26, 2001, I got paid.
There was nothing unique about this payday. At the time, I was working as a chemical engineer for a private corporation which manufactured almost all of its products internally. I was paid fairly well and I was grateful but couldn’t have been more neutral about the day.
Only two years removed from college, I didn’t have any student loans because I had secured a full academic scholarship. Additionally, because of a freak accident involving my dad, I had access to funds that were set aside for college and largely were left unused. I hadn’t used that specific college fund money because each summer during college, I also worked as an intern for a pharmaceutical company making enough money to sustain my frugal lifestyle for almost the entire school year. Furthermore, I was sitting on a decent 401K because the company shared sizable profits at more than 10% for the first two years I had been working there. I felt I was lucky.
Life was financially going pretty well for a twenty-something straight from the hood…
Impatient? I am too!
Read the first 10 pages…
this book is an unbridled account of the strategies I have used to overcome a long list of unthinkables.
This book represents my best attempt at sharing my life’s greatest pains in order for other people to possibly find comfort in knowing that they are not alone when the unthinkable things happen. I am writing this book because I have healed, overcome my share of the unthinkables and I have done so while showing up for work in powerfully engaged ways. I think there is something to learn from that and from other parts of my path as well.
Words from Our Readers
“No matter your unthinkable situation, it is yours.
When we are face to face with something we never thought possible, there is always something we do have the ability to do—choose how to craft our response.”
