When the Odds Don't Appear Promising
You may have a chance at success that you can't visualize
Your future will not necessarily move in the direction you are projecting and disappoint as you believe is likely to happen. Your concern, worry and fear may be displaced. Even if your efforts start out in a manner that don’t instill confidence in your mind, you can end up where you need to — or want to — arrive.
Discouraging perceptions of what is happening in the moment can remain for a long while to the point where your situation may become overwhelming and difficult to positively process.
Hopelessness can creep into your thinking. Yet what if all that is an inaccurate analysis of the actual story developing in your favor?
What if possibility of what you would like is so much more than you are forecasting?
What if you’re moving more towards your goals or problem solving than you are perceiving? And what if by continuing on with discipline and perseverance you are getting much closer to success and relief?
It’s challenging oftentimes to dismantle the doubt and successfully manage — or reject — the worry, negativity and fear.
It has to be done however to some satisfactory, beneficial level so that you can be clear-headed, logical, hopeful, confident and do your best work, striving for progress and eventually, breakthrough and success, especially in the most difficult of hardships.
Watch Out for Piercing, Lawyerly Retorts to Denials
There is a dispute going on in professional sports yet this section and the analysis are not sports-related. It’s instead about what can transpire for us too maybe in an entrenched conflict, lawsuit and the communication that becomes public and ugly.
In brief: “The LA Clippers say a former strength and conditioning coach asked for millions of dollars from the team before filing his wrongful termination lawsuit in October and making tampering claims involving Kawhi Leonard, according to a court filing obtained by ESPN,” reported Baxter Holmes at ESPN.
“After they refused to pay Randy Shelton, who was fired by the team last summer, he sued the Clippers and president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank, saying he was punished for expressing concerns about the management of Leonard's injuries.
Now look at what Anthony Nguyen, one of the lawyers representing Shelton, said in response to the Clippers working to move the case to arbitration.
"In demanding that this dispute be settled by arbitration, the Clippers are attempting to sweep the organizational problems highlighted by our client under the rug, by taking the case out of the public eye and into a forum that precludes access for all to see," Nguyen said.
What Nguyen is saying is that an organization is attempting a cover up and wants to keep the “dirt” hidden. That’s an inflammatory accusation. However, if it is true, then it’s a problem requiring a remedy, one that may require the muscle of the courts.
Regardless of whether it is factual or not, it’s not a helpful visual to have painted about you if you are a leader — or the organization, as a whole.
"We will of course fight their attempt to do so as we believe everyone should have access to the issues uncovered in this case, and find it questionable that the Clippers, despite arguing that our client's claims are supposedly frivolous, want to prevent public access to the litigation of this case," Nguyen said. "We believe that this matter should not be hidden from the public nor from fans."
That’s legal — and public relations — flexing, in advocacy for this attorney’s client.
It may be interpreted by the other party as “an act of war” yet if the accusations are factual and supported by credible evidence as proof, they are truthful pieces of the story being brought forth because the defendant doesn’t want to acknowledge and correct what it has done that was unethical or legally wrong.
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