Adapt or Die!!

This blog was designed for me to keep customers informed of cars, news related to cars, etc. I hesitate putting my personal life in this space but I think it's important for you guys to know that I am not just a "Car Salesman". I am a human being. I face triumphs, tribulations, and struggles along the way.

So I was at home eating lunch with my incredible girlfriend and our (not so incredible) cat and had some great sense of comfort come over me. I'm not sure if it was the day old lasagna, god, or something else. I flashed back to when I was much younger and playing baseball for a guy named Mike Essick. Something he always would say popped in my mind at the very perfect time. "Adjust, adapt, and overcome" I just added the "Or die" part. To me that's the gravity of the situation. Life shows up. We lose jobs. We lose people. We lose relationships. We lose houses. We lose cars. When that moment happens, what we do next is EVERYTHING.

My Grandma has always said two things. 1)Good things happen to good people. 2) Life is not about what happens to you; it's about how you respond to what happens to you. I recently have gone through my own set of difficulties. Being excused from my position at Honda, falling behind on bills, and trying to understand what happened. I took a little sabbatical for a month and went to do maintenance work at a golf course making less money than I had made since I was 18 years old. I loved it. Every minute of it. Getting up early, spending time with God, and working until I was tired enough to collapse just across the threshold of my front door. I had time to think for the first time in a while.

All during this process I was trying to do ANYTHING I could do get out of the car business. I was DONE(or so I thought). I was tired of the long hours, the demanding customers, and the sleezy sales people who exist at every car lot giving the rest of us a bad name. I had accepted a position as a Mortgage Loan Officer with a local lending company here in Columbia. I was excited. I had to take a massive test. I got zero support from my potential employer in regards to helping me prepare for testing and life after as an LO. I declined the offer and kept cutting grass. Every day on my way home from the golf course I'd drive by a car dealership. Every day I looked at the sales people standing on the lot. Every day I thought about how many deals they were working or what opportunities they had that day.

I kept getting phone calls from a friend of mine in the business who now happens to be my manager. We had worked together before and had very similar goals and aspirations in life. Car guys have things they want to accomplish other than selling cars. Crazy I know. Anyways, long story short I accepted a position here at Kia of Columbia after telling him NO twice. I'm sitting at my desk as I type this and I'm beyond impressed with the amount of professionalism that I've been treated with. This is a team that I want to be a part of. Maybe more importantly is they WANT me to a part of their team.

I had a choice to make. God put in me position and gave me a choice, as always. It's my job to adjust, adapt, and overcome those obstacles we call life. If I don't continue to adjust, adapt, and overcome those same obstacles they will consume me. And I'll die. If not physical then definitely spiritually. So this goes out to those people who are in a really uncomfortable place in their life. Those people who are faced with some heavy choices. Those people who are stagnant and have been swallowed up by the masses. YOU have a choice to. Adjust. Adapt. Overcome. Or die.