How to Properly Celebrate Your "Badiversary"
Fellow Riskologist,
One of the less amazing things about life is that bad things often happen to good people.
Sometimes, these are a result of your own poor decision-making. Maybe you made a bad business investment and lost a lot of money or neglected a relationship that fell a part. Maybe you simply miscalculated and made an honest mistake that hurt you or someone you care about.
Other times, bad things come to you through no fault of your own. Every day, good people get horrible diseases, loved ones pass away, and bad people do terrible things to those who’ve done nothing to deserve it.
As a Riskologist committed to trying new things in life and continuously improving, chances are you’ve experienced both sides of this coin.
I call these my “badiversaries.” God knows I’ve collected a few.
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