RAIN OR SHINE….
As a rhino charging around in the jungle chasing down your dream, you are going to occasionally encounter rain. Rain is a metaphor for all the difficulties and unexpected obstacles you are going to come across while you pursue your goals. I love the expression “Rain or Shine”. It expresses the attitude that you need to succeed – commitment and a sense of adventure.
When an upcoming event is advertised as “Rain or Shine”, it means the event is going to happen no matter what! There is no contingency plan. There is no plan B. It is going to happen! What a fantastic way to approach anything that you want to accomplish. When you go after something with a Rain or Shine attitude, you don’t hold anything back. There will be no question of retreating. It is damn-the-torpedoes time!
If you wait for the perfect time to launch a new business, you will never be in business. There is never a perfect time. Conditions are never going to be perfect for anything that you want to do, unless there is nothing you want to do. If you want to be a cow, chew your cud twice out in the pasture and do nothing with your life, then guess what? Conditions are perfect.
I like the saying “Rain or Shine” too, because it acknowledges that there is going to be rain. Rain happens! And rain plays no favorites. Everyone gets rained on from time to time. Even people with no goals or purpose get rained on. King Obama himself cannot stop the rain. Whether socialist or capitalist, there is gonna be rain.
The trick is to change your attitude toward rain. When you are on an adventure and it starts to rain, you know that the excitement is just starting. Indiana Jones would have been a boring movie if he didn’t run into any troubles. When the rain comes down, the atmosphere levels are turned to high. Remember in the movie “Jurassic Park” when the Tyrannosaurus was attacking the group in the jeep? What happened just before they saw the T-rex? It started raining! Steven Spielberg knows how to make an adventure movie. You gotta have rain!
Our country is in the middle of a huge storm right now as the Obama administration is dismantling the free enterprise system and replacing it with socialism. It is hard to get motivated about being a slave and watching the government monitor and control more and more of our lives. I feel the same terror as if I was in the jeep being attacked by the Tyrannosaurus. But this is part of the adventure! Rain doesn’t last forever. We will get out of this mess and we will have a great story. Don’t give up!! Keep fighting for freedom. “Hope and Change” right back at em! We will overcome this oppression, RAIN OR SHINE!!! Enjoy the adventure and keep charging!! Scott Alexander
Freedom, come rain or shine!
Copyright 2009 by Scott Alexander