I sent this to my staff and my members of The eHomes Realty Network yesterday morning an I had such a response from all of them, I figured I would share it with you.

As most of you know, I read a lot of books these days.  That's a
pretty amazing thing because I have major reading disabilities.  In
fact, if you don't know, I flunked out of college after my first
semester and was 326th out of 328th of my high school class.  I had a
96 IQ and was told that I should learn a trade because that was what
someone with an IQ that far below the average of 110 would be able to
accomplish.  Good thing I didn't listen!

Stay Positive - An exerpt from The No Complaining Rule

It's easy to be positive when everything in life is going great.  The
hard part is staying positive when you get kocked down and kicked
around.  The fact is, no one goes through life untested.  If you study
history, sports and business, you will find that every great leader
and team had to overcome adversity and challenges to define themselves
and their success.  With so many people telling us we can't do it, we
have to be positive and believe we can.  We have to have faith and
trust in a bigger plan for us and our team.  The concept of the
"overnight success" is a myth.  Life is a test, and a deciding factor
of whether we pass or fail is the answer to the following question:
"Are you going to stay positive in the face of your doubts, fears, and
challenges?"  Staying positive is not about putting on a fake smile or
believing you can do it all yourself.  Rather it's about being
optimistic and living with hope and having faith.  The measure of our
success will not be determined by how we act during the great times in
our life but rather by how we think and respond to the challenges of
our most difficult moments.

The media, your co-workers, and your customers can tell you how bad
the market is and how difficult it must be to be in the Real Estate
business these days.  The reality still states that it's the best time
we have had to buy a home in the past 10 years and it's a great time
for you, the Realtor, to exploit the opportunities verse dwell on the
negatives.  Take a look in the mirror and ask yourself, are you going
to be one of the thousands of Realtors that fail this year because of
their attitudes and negativities, or are you going going to be one of
the 10% who decide to take control of their lives, their customers and
their business and have a rocking 2009?  The choice is yours!