Yesterday I got really, really challenged, I was working, and I just saw a message popping up on my phone from somebody asking why I was leaving the community while I she was working one-on-one with me as a coach. This felt really strange because I didn't leave the community. So then she said, "Ok, then maybe you should have a look and change your password quickly."
So I tried changing my password, you guessed it, "wrong current password". And I don't forget my passwords because I'm really strict with passwords, and I save them in a password manager. Then I went to my email, which was connected to my Skool, and wanted to change the password quickly. Once again, wrong current password....
And then it struck me. I thought, "Oh no, I've been hacked." While I was typing to this coach in Skool on the phone, I saw all messages double, which makes me believe that there was another person reading with us on another device..
Quickly, I was going through all my accounts, Facebook. Same story: unable to change the password because the current password is not correct. So this person was already in 3 of my accounts.
But instead of flipping out, I stayed pretty calm, and I told myself, "Okay, this account is not connected to your bank account, so we're good for now. Let's solve this." So I told my employer that I need some time because of this private situation that I need to fix ASAP, and I used AI to help me guide through all the steps I needed to do, and somehow I was very lucky with my mailbox provider that I had a parent account so I could overwrite the password for my mailbox there, and after I locked this person out, I added two-factor authentication. And slowly but surely, I was able to recover all the other accounts. It took me four hours to get everything back to how it was.
I always had strong passwords, but there is one thing I didn't do out of laziness, and that was two-factor authentication. Now everything is secured with two-factor authentication.
The reason I'm telling this is because if this would have happened to me two years ago, I would have been completely out of my mind and panicked and whatever. ๐คฏ Now, yes, I felt adrenaline, and it was tense because it felt like a race against the clock, I stayed amazingly calm. Even my wife told me that she said you handled this so calmly and that she was proud of me. ๐ฅบ
And this shows me that practicing breathwork consistently two times a day really makes you resilient for the moments you really need it. ๐ซ ๐ช
I hope at least one of you gets some value out of this story ๐
Have a Great day! Breathe well ๐ฟ