5 Lessons I Learned From My Life-Threatening Illness
Flipped Lifestyle™ Podcast
Shane Sams
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Here are some of my early thoughts reflecting on my life threatening experience...
1) Health is wealth
2) Family and community are everything.
3) Thank God for the flexibility of online business
4) God has a mission for us all, and every day you wake up, he's saying "I'm not done with you yet. Get to work."
5) There is no tomorrow.
Only today.
When you are faced with the real possibility of no tomorrow, you realize how precious today really is.
I was healthy one day, then not the next. That fast.
I was attacking life, and then I was fighting for my life.
If the sun is shining, if you are awake and reading this email...
Then you have TODAY!
Today is the day the Lord has made... let us REJOICE and be glad in it y'all!
Procrastination has no place in our life anymore. I declare war on "tomorrow" and claim "TODAY" as the day of my salvation, my action, my chance... the day of action, the day of effort, the day of stop putting things off, the day of checking off the boxes and getting stuff DONE...
And you should too...
Your life can change in an instant (mine did), and unfortunately, it doesn't always have a happy ending or a second chance or a clear bill of health at the end of the story...
You may not have tomorrow to chase your dream...
Or call that loved one...
Or to start your online business...
You only have TODAY.
Did YOU see the Sunrise?
What does that mean?
It means God gave you another day...
Don't waste it...
No more "tomorrows"
Get out there...
Take action...
And do whatever it takes to Flip Your Life.
A special thank you to everyone out there who prayed for me and my family, left us a messages on social media, or sent us cards and emails while I was sick.
You helped us through the storm, and we will never forget the love you sent our way in a hard time. We love you, and are so grateful for you, and will use this gift of life and time to serve you and your family!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Flip Lifestyle Podcast, where life always comes before work. |
| 0:07.0 | We're your host, Shane and Jocelyn Sam. |
| 0:11.0 | We're a real family that figured out how to make our entire living online. |
| 0:16.0 | And now we help other families do the same. |
| 0:19.0 | Are you ready to flip your life? |
| 0:21.3 | All right. |
| 0:22.3 | Let's get started. |
| 0:24.7 | What is going on, everybody? |
| 0:25.9 | This is Shane Sams. |
| 0:29.2 | Thank you so much for listening to my podcast today. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm going to do a solo show today because I'm just coming back from a pretty significant event in my life. |
| 0:39.7 | Kind of a life-changing and life-threatening event. I'll tell you more about it in just a second, but a few weeks ago, I got extremely sick and I ended up in the hospital |
| 0:45.0 | for almost nine days and had a lot of time to think and reflect on this situation. I actually just |
| 0:53.8 | had my follow-up appointment with my doctor, |
| 0:56.2 | you know, |
| 0:56.5 | counting the ER, |
| 0:57.5 | I was in the hospital for nine days, |
| 0:59.3 | nine full days, |
| 1:00.3 | extremely ill. |
| 1:01.8 | The illness was really serious. |
| 1:03.2 | My doctor actually told me and some other friends of mine |
| 1:05.8 | in the medical facility and in the medical profession told me, |
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