Throughout my life I have done things my way, and they have always worked out - as if I've had luck in my corner.
Of course there were challenges along the way, but these were always dealt with head on and produced great results.
This approach brought me around the globe: living from Tel Aviv to London to Tokyo to Jakarta to Buenos Aires; from Wall Street to Main Street to Midaq Alley; from an apartment on Fifth Avenue to living out of my car.
No matter what, I was all in.
This approach has brought me both failures and successes, including a once thriving and financially successful business.
The question for me was not whether I would be successful in life, but rather, how?All of my optimism and bravado came to a crashing halt one cold December holiday night, when after an evening out with good friends, I suffered an accident.
I was beaten with a pipe and later found under a moving train, resulting in quadriplegia.
Given virtually no chance to walk again, I was devastated.
But I also had hope, and lots of it.
A fire that exists deep within, and has since childhood, burns on no matter the circumstances.
I am here for a bigger mission.
What would that mission now be? Better yet, how would I get through the mess that I was about to face? Nothing could have prepared me for what was to come.
Every part of my life-- emotional, physical, mental, spiritual, financial, including family and friend relationships, suffered.
Still, not ten seconds of pity passed through me while I lay on that gurney in a cold, dark, sterile hall in the trauma center, With a priest's hand on my arm, I was determined to recover, to heal.
This sense of optimism was supported by a deep inner belief that all things in life are impermanent, and no matter how bad it was, it too would eventually pass.
Having a background as an entrepreneur, I organized and operated my recovery as a business, down to a daily spreadsheet that had my time split into fifteen minute segments.
This process changed me in dee.
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Unbreakable Mind: channeling your survival instincts after catastrophic injury, paperback/steven quigley
