I recently attended my local Home Builders Assoc. Installation Banquet for the new officers.  This was a very nice dinner with many different speakers.  The one that caught my attention and the attention of everyone in the room was an older gentlemen who has been a builder for over 40 years. 

His speech was geared around how to survive a down market and to come out on the end better than you went into it.  He talked about how he started building homes in the early 60's after he got out of the Army.  He went through the many ups and downs he had in his personal and business life.  He matched up those hard times to what was going at that point in the national and global economy as well. 

One of the key points that I took away from his emotional and moving speech was that every hard time seems like the hardest of time, that is until the next hard time comes around.  Think about that for a minute....  Meaning that no matter how hard you have it right now there will be more hard times ahead, sooner or later.  It is not the event that determines the outcome, it is your attitude and positive outlook during the event that determines YOUR outcome.

However, this was this quote that still resounds within me everyday, and I wanted to share it with you as the wrap up of this blog,

"IF ALL OF YOUR PROBLEMS CAN BE SOVLED BY MONEY, THEN YOU ARE DOING BETTER THAN YOU KNOW"

We may not be making as much money as we did last year, or even as much as we did at the beginning of the year but I am sure we all can find something in this down market that we are thankful for.