Dance in the rain:

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Dance in the rain.

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Learn how to dance in the storm.

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Life isn’t sunshine.

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It isn’t 25 degrees sunny with no wind.

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It’s stormy.

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And windy.

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And filled with fire.

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And lightning.

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And hurricanes.

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There will always be a storm.

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It may happen more often than not.

War.

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Destruction.

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Death.

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Climate change.

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Inflation.

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All problems.

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All issues we have no control over.

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But we have to deal with.

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There is no playbook.

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There is no guide

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There is no blueprint for how to figure it all out.

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You just have to try.

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You have to show up.

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You have to participate in this thing we call life.

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We don’t need dancers in the sun.

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We need dancers in the rain.

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Dancers in the storm.

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Dancers in the darkness.

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Because life is not sunshine and rainbows.

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The next decade will be tough.

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Brutal in fact.

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Probably the worst since the 1930s.

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We’re headed down that direction.

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Exploding debt.

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Decline of an empire.

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Political polarization.

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Unimaginable wealth inequality.

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Under investment in natural resources.

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End of a long term debt cycle.

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All of these set us up for a brutal decade.

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And that assumes nothing comes from nature.

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Whether you like it or not, you’re gonna have to deal with shit the next 10 years.

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Family members dying.

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Horrible news daily.

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Job loss.

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Housing loss.

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Bankruptcies.

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Protests.

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Violence.

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Revolutions.

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It’s coming, whether you like it or not.

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So what are you going to do about it?

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Nothing.

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Let it happen.

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Control what you can.

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Let go of what you can’t.

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The Stoics nailed this.

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They lived through times of war, famine and disease.

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They saw death all around them.

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But what could they do?

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None of it was in their control.

All they could do was control their effort.

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Control their work.

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Control their mind.

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They could choose to focus on what was in front of them.

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And forget about everything else.

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You have that choice.

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As much as it seems like you don’t.

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That doesn’t mean you can’t run from death or destruction.

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It’ll be there forever.

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But you can choose to accept it.

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You can choose to learn from it.

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You can choose to grow from it.

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You can choose to enjoy the shit storm that is your life.

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‘Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass,

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It’s about learning how to dance in the rain’ - Vivian Greene.

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