How would you react if 9/11 happened to you? ULIFE launch

On 9/11 thoughts turn to those people who lost family and friends seven years ago. I have only met a handful of people who were directly linked and every one of them had their own recollections of the events of that infamous day. I can vividly recall the day myself, so detached at the time and yet continually finding more and more ways that connect me.

 

I even visited what has since become known as “Ground Zero” a few years ago when visiting New York. Even after so long, that place holds an energy; a combination of pain and sorrow mixed with hope and potential. What had intended to divide and caused hatred had in so many places brought people together in love and compassion.

 

Tonight, I was invited to the launch of a new coaching company called ULIFE. Elizabeth Turner, was 7 months pregnant when she waited for a call from her husband who was working in the twin towers… a call that unfortunately never came.

 

7 years on, and having faced several other challenges along the way, Elizabeth has teamed up with Kevin Watson and Jan Kirsop Taylor and created ULIFE, a coaching company dedicated to helping organisations and individuals with all of the changes faced in the modern world – the credit crunch, the housing market crisis and the war against terror. Whilst they help people deal with these major world issues, they are also experts at working with personal change and challenge.

 

One of their key messages, and one which resonates so completely with me, is that whatever happens to us, we always have a choice about how we react and incorporate that event into the rest of our life.

 

To find out more about how ULIFE might be able to help you with change in your life, visit their site here. I can tell they are going to do incredible work and help people deal with what can often seem to be insurmountable challenge, in both the personal and professional spheres. I will keep you posted, as I know they are going to be running some workshops soon, and will update the events page as soon as I know more!

 

Until then, use times like this to reassess what is going on in your life. Put the things back into perspective that may have become distorted. Stop for a moment and ask yourself if there is anything you are not doing in your life that would really add to the richness of your experience… and then go to it.

 

I will leave you with a quote from one of my favourite films of all time – Fight Club. After dragging a store operator from his place of work, Tyler Durden threatens to shoot him if he does not act on his dreams. As we are reminded on days such as today, it often takes the extreme for us to fully realise our situation. As the clerk runs away, Tyler offers us this thought:

 

“Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessel’s life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted.“

 

It is down to you how you react to each event in your life. Choose to focus on such moments as “near-life” events, and live your life accordingly!