n French, we also speak... we speak of the law of series. If for example you have bad news, three days later, another bad news, we will say "it's the law of series". The law of series, here, means... A series is things that happen one after the other. Well the law of series indicates that problems also always happen in groups.
In fact, Chirac recently, because that's exactly what happened to me. I had a pile-up of problems, a big one, a very big one, followed by lots of little ones, at which point you say to yourself: "No, but this problem that's happening to me today, if it had happened to me a month ago all by itself, it would have been easy, no problem. But you have to manage it, in addition to the one that happened two days ago and the other one that happened four days ago plus the big problem that happened two weeks ago", and you find yourself a bit overwhelmed, as if invaded. You have the impression in fact that only one of the problems would have been easy to manage, but that you won't be able to manage the whole thing.
Unfortunately, that's how it is, that's life. Problems always come or fly in squadrons. That's how it is. We can also talk about a spiral. I like the word "spiral" because... A spiral is a kind of geometric shape that makes a circle. So you imagine, you take your finger and you rotate your finger. So if you rotate it and leave it at the same level, you're drawing circles with your finger, but if while rotating, you go up, well you form a spiral. A spiral is a shape of a circle that goes up or down.
And a positive spiral, well it's I have good news and this good news creates other good news. So it's a set of good news, because the law of series also works in a positive way. But spirals can also philippines whatsapp number data be negative, in which case it's the law of series that is negative and it's ultimately the problems that fly in squadrons, that never come alone.
Another way to picture this… I take it from Jim Rohn, the famous American speaker and writer who, himself, said that in fact… he compared our lives or the atmosphere of our lives to the seasons. He said: “In our lives, there are… it’s like the seasons”. Sometimes, it’s summer, everything’s fine. If we take the weather, there’s sun, it’s nice, everything’s great. And in our life, it’s the same. We have no problems, everything’s fine, we have opportunities, we’re happy, everything’s very very good, we have no worries. And other times, it’s winter where there’s really only problems to deal with, only bad news, only sadness. He compares it to winter weather in fact.
And in the end… Well, he takes other images for spring and fall. But in the end, he tells us that sometimes winters are short, sometimes they are long, sometimes summers are short, sometimes they are long, sometimes they are very cold winters, sometimes very hot summers. So I like this comparison too.
And one of the tips that he gives and I'm going to pass on to you today is that you actually have to prepare for the winters. When it's summer, when everything is going well, you have to prepare, you have to be ready to react to the winters.
And the reason why I am definitely in a winter right now, because the problems are flying in squadrons and there are a lot of them that are coming to me at the same time, the reason why I am able to resist well, is that I have prepared myself, is that during the summer, during the times when there are no squadrons of problems, well I don't rest on my laurels, I work.