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Turn Setbacks Into Springboards
The one thing I love about New Years is that it is a time to start over.  OK, you failed at your diet.  Instead of weight-loss it was weight-found, no problem.  Start over.  You didn't make the top ten agents in the US, your State, your office or your solo brokerage, no problem.  You get another chance.  You didn't make the top 30 under 30 list, no problem.  There's always the top 40 under forty list.  Begin again.
We all need points in our lives where we get another chance.  You can let life's failings derail and wreck your life, or you can pick yourself up and dust yourself off and start over.  When the economy crashed in September of 2008 my stock portfolio literally disappeared.  I had traded over 600 trades that year and was on my way to an early retirement.  My first impression on seeing the news was, "Wow, that really sucks!"  That was pretty much it.
It drives my wife crazy because I don't go crazy when things like that happen.  It wouldn't make a bit of difference if I did, but what I will do when I have more time in the office is re-establish all ... more

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