Comments on: When You Are In Difficult Times…

By: Krista

Krista — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:50:51 +0000

Tom! I find myself randomly surfing around your website, after seeing your inspirational post on Cindy’s FB page. Ah, good ol’ facebook, never know where the tangents may lead you. I’m happy I landed here. I’m compelled to share a message that someone shared with me during a difficult time in my life when I was making many, many purposeful changes…all in the name of happiness. It’s not easy when you have been blessed with the vision or the catalyst to make a change, but not all of the tools or opportunities that you need to accomplish that vision have been revealed to you yet. Attempting to be patient…but really feeling more frustrated out of your mind for your ambiguous life to hurry up and work itself out…feeling lost and praying for a “door to open”. That’s when a friend told me that I wasn’t lost at all. I was exactly where I needed to be…just waiting in the hallway. And either I wasn’t ready to open the door, or what was on the other side of the door wasn’t ready for me to enter it. At the time those words brought me peace, and since then I’ve really grown to love the time I spend just chillin’ in the hallway.

By: tomhilgardner

tomhilgardner — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:58:20 +0000

Hey John,

Thanks for sharing this man. I really appreciate you sharing your personal experience that came up for you after reading the post. My hope is that others will have the courage to share their experience too, as I really believe we grow by being vulnerable and willing to share with others.

Sounds like you have a good friend too to see your job situation in a different perspective. It’s a profound lesson to not get a job, get broken up with, or go through a difficult time and realize during that it’s not happening to you, but rather FOR you.

Love your thoughts…

By: Schmid

Schmid — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:43:12 +0000

Tom, I like this post. I can relate to this and actually I think everyone can. It kind of goes back to the saying “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”

I remember the first job I interviewed for right out of college, I failed the interview and didn’t get the job. At the time I thought I was perfect for this job and I had all the qualifications. On top of that this was a job that I really wanted to get. Not getting the job was a huge let down for me. When I told my good friend about what had happened to me, I will never forget what he said. He said “Congratulations!” he was actually happy that I did not get this job in fact he was cheering and laughing when at that moment I was practically breaking into tears. I said “what are you talking about?” He said you are going to be very successful now that you experienced this. This experience and what my friend said to me at that time will stick with me forever.