Firings forced me to look at my life situation, take a bigger picture than I was taking, and figure out the new slices of life I can now taste. Being rejected is an invitation to sample more from life. And having a checklist helped me ignore all the bad chemicals that were trying to bring me down. #Madoff forced me to look at my life with a bigger lens. I started new businesses. I channeled my frustration into more networking, into ideas, into experimenting with my creativity to try new careers. I do the items on this checklist almost every day. Thank you Bernie Madoff. You did very bad things. And I met you when I was lost in my life. This is not about you. Or about me. It's what you and I did together. Here they are... 10 things you need to do if you were #fired yesterday:  http://ow.ly/YhRN30iRjU6 …see more