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HOW ADVERSITY CAN BRING OPPORTUNITIES


We are the beginning and the end of all our decisions and choices.


We are the beginning and the end of all our lack of decisions and choices.

We must have solid reasons to know what we are doing or what we are not doing that will bring us opportunities.

When we are facing adversity; when we are facing struggles, we must not be afraid to fight The Good Fight. What does this mean? I can only share with you what I know for sure from my life lessons, fuck-ups, success, and experiences…

The Good Fight is merely a representation of how you are going to smack down the battles, the struggles, the hard knocks that life hands you.

Daily, I work on my shit to repair damages in the most private and positive ways and to reflect in meaningless thoughts… [also known as day-dreaming] – -which brought me to I write my

9 Steps: How Adversity Can Bring Opportunities

So, first, let me share with you the definitions of Adversity and
Opportunities.

#1] Adversity can be like a positive point of disaster… your life will travel through ups and downs and take you to new levels of confidence or lack of confidence. This is actually like a lesson of positive disaster. We all have to get through some challenge by finding comfort in the chaos. We cannot have everything peaceful 100% of the time. Learn to fucking handle your adversity as a positive disaster and grow from it.

#2] Adversity can be your mentor… just like a person with more experience in life or in business, adversity like a mentor will help you sharpen your abilities and skills while helping you prepare for new opportunities.

#3] Adversity will make you… ask yourself what matters and what doesn’t matter. We all must have reasons for knowing what we are doing or what we are not doing. Learning this will help you make the best decisions to take actions in your ‘adversity’.

#4] Adversity will let you experience periodic extinctions… for example, some people will come into your life for a short period of time thus adversity will come into your life for a short period of time. [and just like the pizza delivery guy, adversity will return with a new fucking problem] While adversity is with you, you’ll learn and un-learn ideas and information. You’ll experience and view your life in a different way for a short period of time… then that experience will become extinct because that adversity is no longer with you in your life.

#5] Adversity will always show you… how lucky you are. Yeah, we’ve all heard that someone else has a worse or more severe shituation [no typo… my new word] So, how does this fucking provide us comfort in our adversity lesson? Again, it points out that even with your disastrous circumstance, you can always look at the positive by shifting your thoughts to be Solve-The-Problem thoughts not ‘panic at the disco’ thoughts. Use your intelligence to think bigger to solve your adversity. You cannot solve a problem with old thinking… newer, bigger, stronger thinking will provide the answers.

#6] Adversity lets you define… that you can do big things in small ways. What the hell does this mean? Let’s just say you’re traveling on a highway in the middle of now-where and it’s pouring raining [like a bad-ass thunder storm] and you have a fucking flat tire! You have to pull over to the side of the road and get out of the car. {This is really a small step} Then you have to change the tire {This is really a small step} because your car should have an owner’s manual in the glove compartment and you will have to read the directions: how to change a tire. Yeah, you’ll get soaking ass wet. You’ll cry because nobody is there to help you… but you do it and get back on the road. This is a true story I experienced…

#7] Adversity helps you to rebuild your own shit… Ultimately we are always under construction and repair. It can be complicated to stand your ground when there is no ground to stand on. Have you ever felt like an ice cube that shattered on the cement? Don’t stay there ‘melting’… Fire-ball proficient people are the ones who move forward. Small thinkers cannot teach you perseverance. When your adversity is making you feel like that ice cube melting on the cement, that’s when you need to rebuild your shit without anyone’s concern about how you’re going to positively improve your own life. It’s not easy. Badasses do it. Whiners or peevish complainers will not rebuild thier own shit.

#8] Adversity allows your necessary state of disorder… to become in order. It’s important to take a step back and see how messy your situation has become. Your personal discovery to embrace your mistake(s) is what makes you wiser and ready for the next chapter in your book of life. Defuse your anger and get better at becoming a ‘personal organizer’ and declutter and clean up your shitty state of disorder with strong choices and actions.

#9] Adversity allows you to think and to hold both ideas … inside your head you will hold both the idea and the repair to fix your struggle [your adversity]. You will hold these at the same time. Adversity also shows you that you don’t know every fucking thing yet you know a lot. Fix the adversity (the problem) or Accept the hard knock you’re facing. You will never know ‘everything’. We all stand on the edge of knowing and the edge of changing our minds…. adversity allows you to think and hold many ideas to repair your struggle.

So, let’s wrap this up…

The average person pretty much lives on the edge of their capabilities the majority of their lives. But not you… you are not average. C’mon anyone who reads The Bitchy Business Briefs is not an ordinary person!

Life loves to knock us down when we get too tall…  and it will show us who we really are.  I am quite confident on this topic…  I believe I am a  struggling expert.

“I want to empower humans who have been made to feel like failures in their attempts to find themselves.” ~ Sharon Lee Zapata

Sharon Lee Zapata’s latest book is ideal for anyone at any point in their
life. Whether you’ve been made to feel like a failure in your attempts to find yourself or you feel like you’ve got your shit together… We’ve all come to that cross-road where we say fuck it! I want a better life and this is what I am going to do about it.

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The purpose of this book is to help you kick ass by believing in yourself and to take
action on your start-up – – –
*Start-Up = anything you want to do but you’ve been dragging your ass

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Sharon is an award-winning presenter and 3-time author, including her latest book "Middle Finger Happiness... work hard. live well. don't fuck with mem." She happily wears this book title as one of her favorite tattoos.

Since 2015, she's been pumping out her glorious and quirky, no-filter writing abilities as the creative-head of the ever-popular blog The Bitchy Business Briefs.

She's an abstract Artist with a baller mixed-media studio in The Silos on Sawyer [the largest creative campus in the U.S.]
Sharon is the owner and Co-Founder of The Zapata Group [swiss army knife of creative consulting services]

...and she has a constantly growing podcast: Middle Finger Happiness [iTunes, Anchor, Spotify, Google]

Sharon suffers from having misdirected energy and creativity… So she writes her business ideas, her ‘briefs’ [small batch story telling] – and creates SMARTY-ASS quotes; keeps a lot of tiny notepads around her home to write them down. This is actually her therapy instead of taking pills.

A proud wife and mom to an 11-year old son and grown-up son, she requires an obscene amount of caffeine to get her through most days... doesn't play well with bigots or assholes.

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