A husband tells his wife he wants a divorce...

A mother finds out her teenage daughter has been killed in a car accident....

A woman is fired from her job....

A thirty year old man is diagnosed with cancer...

Unexpected traumatic events can happen. One moment your life is going smoothly and then all of a sudden your world is rocked.

When life instantly goes from calm to chaos it is like being a surfer in peaceful waters that is viciously attacked by a shark without warning.

The important question is: what do you do when something brutal and unexpected happens in your life?

My answer is: act like Mick Fanning.

Mick Fanning is an Australian surfer that survived a shark attack during a surfing contest in South Africa yesterday. Fanning kicked and punched the shark during the attack causing it to swim away. The fact that Mick Fanning is still alive is amazing.

Surviving a traumatic event requires bravery and courage.

If you show a fighting spirit like Mick Fanning then you will also overcome an extremely difficult moment.