How To Spot An Impending Disaster

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How To Spot An Impending Disaster

After some kind of small personal disaster, like losing a job or your spouse asking for a divorce, have you ever heard people say “I just never saw it coming!”?  I have.

Disasters Rarely Happen Quickly

Though sometimes, disasters strike without warning, like a car-collision, it is actually very rare that you don’t get some warning signs.  For example, on more than one occasion I’ve spotted the signs of companies I’ve worked for about to go belly-up; the constant “restructuring”, the high- turnover of managers, the crazy spending etc. I’ve also seen more than one friend’s marriage coming to their ends; the signs?  The woman wanting vacations “with girlfriends”, the sudden interest in fitness and weight-loss etc.

In both the job example and the marriage example, when the company went bankrupt and when the divorce papers were filed, the words I remember vividly were “Well, I never saw THAT coming!”.

Mount St. Helens

In 1980, Mount St. Helens, an active volcano in Washington State, U.S.A. erupted.  It killed 57 people and caused millions of dollars of destruction.  What a lot of people don’t realize is………….they KNEW it was going to happen. They didn’t know WHEN it was going to happen, but they knew it would.

How Did They Know?

They knew because they saw the signs.  They saw the smoke coming from it.  They felt the earth tremors.  The Geological Survey even had people their doing research on the volcano and measuring the seismic activity.  ALL the signs were there….. and the 57 who died, ignored them.

When It Reaches A Certain Point……

When disaster does finally strike, it strikes just like Mount St. Helens did.  It gives you warning after warning, sometimes for years, and then…………it blows-up. Most people think of a volcano as having molten rock (lava) oozing from it, slowly, but inexorably trickling down the side, giving you plenty of time to get out of its way.

However, MOST volcanoes (and most personal/national and international disasters) are like Mount St. Helens.  You see, the Mount St. Helens eruption was what is known as a pyroclastic flow.  That is, super-heated gas (nearly 2000 degrees F) and rock are shot out at speeds approaching 500 mph.  It destroys nearly everything in its path.

Why Am I Telling You This?

I’m telling you this so that you can prepare yourself.  You see, ALL the signs are there for a very, VERY nasty few years ahead.  I’m referring of course, to the financial and political mess that we have been thrust into by the world’s leaders.

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Are you preparing for the worst?  If you’re not, you have only yourself to blame.

Read about what’s going on.  Study how to cope with it. Turn yourself into a valuable person who others want to be around, and who they can rely on.  Learn how to market products online. Learn how to persuade people. Learn to teach others what you learn.

To paraphrase John F. Kennedy “If not now, when?  If not you, who?”.
Luke.