Day 219 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Many of You Have Had to Rebuild...

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Lesson 219: Many of You Have Had to Rebuild...

There are points in our life where we have been left feeling completely hopeless, lost, confused.. without a sense of having a way our or way forward. You may have felt sadness, anger and pain, though you would have reached a point in which you decided to build from there. You stopped to rebuild your life even if you didn’t think of it as rebuilding at the time. Today we are to think about a time when we lost everything and you really felt like all was lost. When you rebuilt your life, can you see how you learned from it.

I remember this time when I really didn’t have enough money. I decided to buy a home and wanted to find a new job that paid much better. So, finding a new job proved difficult and because of the amount I was earning wasn’t enough for me to live a life of entertainment, I found I was living week to week and then accumulating debt. There came a point where someone must have hacked my computer and grabbed my credit card details and stole money. It just seemed like everything was spiralling and I couldn’t handle it. I had to face some truths that I might have to sell my apartment and move back home interstate and live with my mum. That was the last resort and I was so close to doing it! Luckily, I ended up finding a new job that basically was double my wage in the previous job and it all worked out.

I definitely felt lost because I lost hope in finding a new job and because funds were low, I was worried at times that I might not even have enough to eat. There was a feeling where I felt completely powerless. I was doing everything in my power to find another job and I just wasn’t nailing anything after multiple interviews. I felt like hope was diminished. When I did finally get a new job, I was so grateful. It was a cushion to the blow I was having. I think what it taught me at the time was to be wiser with money. I was going well for a while and then I went into old habits. I actually had a friend give me the book “Barefoot Investor” (good for Australians), that has helped me to set up some sort of plan when it comes to finances. I have been managing alright with that method but in recent events where I’ve been a bit reckless with money, I have been served a reminder to be in more control of how I spend. I need to rebuild again.

How did you cope with a hopeless situation and rebuilt your life?