What if the derailment, was actually an opportunity to redirect ?

I want to ask you something, and I'd love to hear your honest answer in the comments.

Have you ever had a moment — completely unplanned, almost accidental, where something stopped you in your tracks and made you think

"Why couldn't I do that?" 🤔

For me it was hearing a piece of music from another room, and after following the sound, what I saw on screen made me think "how hard could that actually be?"

Eighteen months later I was working on one of the highest-profile productions the BBC had to offer.

As a former landscaper, with no computer experience beyond invoicing, no plan, no contacts, and no relevant expereince, all I had was acuriosity, a willingness to learn differently, and, if I'm honest, an arrogant fact that I had no other option.

I know now, that the accident that ended my business turned out to be the redirect I didn't know I needed, so here's what I'm genuinely curious about ?

Has a setback, a redundancy, an accident, or an unexpected life event ever forced you into something that turned out to be better than what you'd lost?

Did you see it coming?

Did you fight it at first?

And what was the moment it shifted from feeling like an ending to feeling like a beginning?

Drop it in the comments. These are the stories that actually help people who are sitting in the middle of their own uncertainty right now.

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What if the derailment, was actually an opportunity to redirect ?