| I play golf and even though I'm NOT a accomplished | | | | for you and those associated with you as good as it |
| golfer I take pride in my game especially when I play in | | | | can be? How do you go forward. |
| competition. | | | | Well first of all it will not be easy! Forget the golf shot, |
| One aspect of most peoples game that I notice is | | | | that you should dispense before your next shot. The |
| how long they dwell on a bad shot! I have played with | | | | fender bender is done and forgotten almost as if it |
| individuals who will hit a bad shot on hole number one | | | | never happen. Your child's F on their report card, talk |
| and think about it and talk about it for seven holes, | | | | about, discuss a plan that will have them correct the |
| maybe even the next eight to nine holes. | | | | problem and move on. NO yelling, screaming and |
| The Titanic sank get over it! In life there WILL be many | | | | certainly no reminding them for the nine weeks about |
| disappointments, set backs and yes even tragedies. | | | | the poor grade! |
| How you deal with them as they transpire will play | | | | Look, life is difficult and it produces a great number of |
| heavily in your life and in some cases for the rest of | | | | situations that can be depressing, hurting, disappointing |
| your life. | | | | and with great sorrow. The reality is, like it or not, life |
| Understand that time stops for NO event, person or | | | | and time do NOT wait for you or anyone to get over |
| thing! Time continues to tick forward no matter the | | | | it. |
| situation. JFK, Bobby Kennedy , Martin Luther King, Elvis | | | | As the Titanic sank several hundred people watched |
| and even Michael Jackson didn't stop time from | | | | from life boats as loved ones and others aboard the |
| continuing forward with their untimely deaths. | | | | ship died. It's a hard fact and it happened. |
| I understand how difficult some situations can be to | | | | Those who lost loved ones were hurt and in deep |
| get though and get over. However the faster you | | | | sorrow for their loss. BUT they had one thing that we |
| move forward, the quicker you get on with your life, | | | | all have to help us keep going, you might call it "the |
| the better the situation will be for you and those | | | | recorder of life", our memory. |
| associated with you. | | | | I have lost many loved ones in my life. Family, friends |
| Now there is a huge difference between a bad golf | | | | and comrade's in arms. I cried and I asked why? But I |
| shot and losing a loved one. We all understand that. | | | | moved on, and you will too. You will because you have |
| But you MUST deal with both situations with the | | | | those memories of all those times, good, bad and |
| understanding that life goes on, time will NOT stop for | | | | indifferent. Memories are so precious. |
| you to adjust to the situation. | | | | You will laugh, you will cry but most important you |
| Let's take any disappointment or set back, once it has | | | | WILL remember and as you do, you move forward |
| taken place, it's history. There will be nothing you can | | | | with your life. |
| do to stop it, it's done! Move on! How do you make life | | | | |