Personal development

Incredible coincidences

I am soon due to be giving a couple of presentations on the subject of self motivation. As it’s been a while since I did the last one on this subject and life moves on I thought I’d work with some new material. I’d got most of my ideas together but was still looking for some inspiration. So I called my good friend Paul Joslyn, who’s an excellent speaker, and arranged to meet for lunch.

We met at Bluewater shopping mall and Paul suggested a Tapas bar he knew. Walking over there we passed a retail display being looked after by an attractive lady and we had a laugh and joke with her. After a delicious lunch we were walking back and stopped to talk to the same lady.

Paul mentioned to her that I was going over to Marbella and she lit up and said ‘I know it really well over there because I worked there for thirteen years. I then went to Tenerife for a few years. I also crossed the Atlantic from there on a yacht”. Interesting lady. She asked Paul “what are you up to?” and he said he’d just been on a singles cruise and they talked about that.

The lady, who’s name we found out was Lucy, said she was single and revealed that her partner had tragically been killed in a car accident a year ago. Apparently he’d been travelling at high speed in his brand new Porsche and hit a puddle which caused the car to flip over. She’d actually been on the phone to him as it happened. We said how sorry we were to hear that and Lucy said although it had been a difficult time she had now come to terms with it.

Her man had been the managing director of a business which Paul knew and he said “you’re never going to believe this” and Lucy said “this is going to freak me out, isn’t it?” It turned out Paul had a complaint about a product the firm supplied and had written to the Managing Director. He had received a personal letter of apology and had everything put right immediately. It was Lucy’s man who had written the letter and this was very close to the time of his death. We all agreed it was an amazing coincidence.

When he died, Lucy said, unsurprisingly, she had taken it badly and had turned to alcohol. At one stage her friends, extremely worried about her, had taken her to a church to see if that would help. She said that although she wasn’t a religious person she had found an incredible sense of peace. She shared with us that it utterly changed her life, she slowly healed and now has a sense of spirituality she’d never experienced at anytime previously in her life.

We left to go on our way and Paul said to me “What an incredible story, I think you may have what you’re looking for John”.

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