When Life Smacks You in the Face

<p>Josh Tirado: [00:00:00] Welcome to the making smart decisions podcast. I'm your host, Josh Toronto, and today's title. I'm going to affectionately call when life smacks you in the face. I did a podcast a long time ago, where I referenced a quote from Mike Tyson about being punched in the [00:01:00] face. But this is a little different.</p><p>This is more about you're minding your business on a mundane Tuesday afternoon, and all of a sudden, something major in your life happens. Are you prepared? Are you ready? This was brought to mind. I was on a call with a client this morning. She mentioned that her husband, also a client of mine, had been in a car accident not doing anything reckless, literally sitting stopped at a stop sign, other person driving incredibly fast through a residential area, being careless blows her stop sign, loses control of the vehicle, T-bones my client.</p><p>And now. Several days in the hospital, several weeks later, several surgeries has a couple of months of rehab ahead of him. He will be okay. Thank God. He will be okay. But several months of recovery needed to get a wheelchair, need to outfit his house. Again, as I said, he didn't see that after several surgeries and a long road, several months of recovery, and several months more to leave back to a hundred percent.</p><p>He was going to the store it happened he [00:02:00] has a job with flexible time. They are very understanding. They're working around it. These clients well-prepared. They have savings through the job. They have good health insurance, and things will be okay.</p><p>But their life has been majorly impacted for the next several months. And we both know him getting T-boned like that. Yes, he had several broken bones and torn things and multiple surgeries, but it could have been much, much worse. So that just really affected me this morning and brought to light how quickly life can change in the blink of an eye.</p><p>This is not some avail attempt to encourage you to buy more insurance. This is just a fact of