Whe, wa, wa.....! Winers, baby's, thumbsuckers and just a lot of whining. I can't stand it...but as much as I can't stand whining and complaining....I just hate the phrase....I CAN'T! I hate it....
This is a difficult market. I've been a real estate attorney and a mortgage banker for 14 years. Although I'm still a young buck, I've seen a lot in my 14 years. We've been influenced by the markets over the 14 years, but this is the first time I ever remember being "tied to the markets".....Having said that, I am experiencing tough moments and moments of success. But I really think that the true measure of a man/woman is how they handle adversity. In the book of Proverbs, it says, "you are a weak sort if you can't withstand adversity." I gotta tell you that we all have days, weeks, months or even years when we're like "how much more can we take." But that's just life in general....
What really get's my beef is people who always, and I mean, always say.....I can't. I tell my kids that I never want to hear them say I can't. They can say, boy dad, this is going to be hard.....or this seems so hard that I don't think that I can do it. Or dad this is so hard, can you help me?" I can deal with this....I really can. Because I can either come up along side of them and help them or encourage them or just kick them in the butt. But they're my kids.....
At work, I can't stand clients or even worse, people in my industry who talk only about gloom and doom, but their every other catch phrase is I can't. Those people for some reason are in our industry and just want to suck the life out of those who have life.... Just by talking to healthy people they are the constant DRAIN. Healthy people and people with a purpose in life avoid them at all costs.
Im not saying that healthy people shouldn't be and example or take others under their wing, but when I'm at work, I have one gear and that's high gear. I want to get my stuff done so that I can go and hang with my family, workout or do something fun. I love mentoring people....but there are certain people who seem to just have inbred in their DNA the genetic makeup of making sure that the world knows just how bad their life is....and they always want to put the "I can't" off on someone else.
Anyway...I think that I've heard it so much that I CAN'T tell you how much I hate the word's I CANT!
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Right On! Well put! I say "if you can't, don't", but move on and get out of my way because I CAN!!