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Facing & Coping with Adversity

Facing & Coping with Adversity. “going blind ain’t for sissies”. Ian M. Tod, B.A.(Econ), MBA, CFP. Purpose: Insight, and perhaps a framework for dealing with adversity. Defn: Adversity hardship, difficulty, danger, misfortune, hard conditions, hard times. Defn: Type 1 Diabetes

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Facing & Coping with Adversity

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  1. Facing & Coping with Adversity “going blind ain’t for sissies” Ian M. Tod, B.A.(Econ), MBA, CFP

  2. Purpose: Insight, and perhaps a framework for dealing with adversity.

  3. Defn: Adversity hardship, difficulty, danger, misfortune, hard conditions, hard times

  4. Defn: Type 1 Diabetes • a serious disease • either don’t produce enough insulin, or insulin they have works inefficiently • excessively high levels of sugar in blood and urine are the hallmarks of untreated diabetes

  5. Where it began...

  6. Business Career

  7. Nature of Diabetes

  8. Accountability • answerability • responsibility • liability

  9. Dealing with adversity… • frame the problem, no matter how harsh • look at all avenues of support • enduring optimism

  10. “ Adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it.” - Vince Lombardi

  11. “A reasonable man adapts himself. An unreasonable man relentlessly tries to shape his surroundings to suit him. Therefore, all progress is dependent on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw

  12. We all face adversity

  13. “However mean your life is, meet it, and live it; do not shun and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.” - Henry David Thoreau

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