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Living With Blinders On
 
I suppose it will never end, it's simply engrained in American salesmanship culture. I've just been reading the still never-ending supply of blogs and postings that are chock-full of self praise for the writer, and loathing for other agents that are leaving the business. It's sort of a "Hey, wait, you gotta stick it out and suffer along with us" mentality. They seem to find it audacious that many agents would actually come into a business when it's good, and step out when it's bad!
Now let's think about how absurd that is. If you had money in the stock market, and it's plummeting with no end in sight, what would you do? You would either pull it out all together (cutting your losses), or you would shift it from a losing stock, to one that will hopefully recoup your loss. You would not sit there and say "ride it out baby, you gotta take the bad with the good".
Life is full of ups and downs, twist and turns. Currently the economy is in a free-fall, and it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. America is in crises, and you can pull those blinders ... more

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