Tuesday, March 3, 2009

A Swindle, of Sorts...

Have you ever been in a situation where you just didn’t quite know what to do? Imagine climbing a flight of stairs in total darkness. Imagine your boss calling you onto the carpet and you don’t know where your partner put that important file. It’s insane. It’s nerve-wracking. What do you do in that situation? Do you run and hide? Do you take an emergency coffee break? Do you run around in circles, screaming and shouting? Do you go schitzo?

Most people don’t know what to do in stressful situations. Either they don’t have any or enough training, or they haven’t developed their instincts, their gut feelings. This confidence in gut feelings is a difficult knack to develop. It requires experience and wisdom. But most of all, it takes juevos. It takes cojones. Relying on gut feelings takes guts.

How many of you, when you’re face with a difficult situation, where you don’t know where to go or what to do, but you have to do something… how many of you have the guts to buckle down and buck up, to gather your wits about you, and advance forward in the darkness, relying only on your instincts?

Who here has guts enough to take a chance with me?