HI. Today this will be short and sweet. For sure it’ll be sweet, I’m not certain about the shortness.
In my post two days ago, I mentioned that my wife and I are fairly successful entrepenuers. That’s true.
But it wasn’t always that way.
We have gone into ventures that have gone bust. We have invested in real estate wherein the seller was a crook and we lost thousands of dollars. Dollars we couldn’t afford to loose. We’ve had to have garage sales to pay our mortgage, car payment, etc. We have not always won. We’ve lost more times than we have won. I have on a few occasions gone out and gotten a second job, usually in a fast-food joint or in retail – jobs that I could do after I got off work from my main job.
Did I become angry? Yes, but usually at myself for being so gullible. Did I get depressed? Yeah, a little, then my wife told me to straighten up. Did I go around telling everyone my sad story? No, but perhaps it was because I was embarrassed. Did I stop trusting people? No. Did I enter into deals that seemed to good to be true? Only once. Did I give up and just wallow in my misery? Hell, no. Did I blame my problems on others? No, that wouldn’t fix my problems.
What I (we) did was pick myself up, dust myself off, and with renewed determination decided that I was going to win. (I didn’t say to myself – “I wasn’t going to be screwed again” – I posited my statement in the affirmative rather than the negative).
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