As my business has grown and I am working more often with my marketing partners at Koi Marketing Group, I am listening to some very talented people who are either totally frustrated with todays environment and looking for a better direction or meeting some truly awesome people with a real vision for new opportunity.
What separates the two groups has very little to do with talent or experience, in fact some of the people I am talking to have been successful in our business quite a long time. What separates them is their attitude!
Confession here, as my company was one of those lost in the mortgage industry bust, I have been up and down in my own attitudes certainly! But what always amazes me is whenever I am struggling I seem to see or hear something that brings me back. This morning it was a young guy who wrote a book called Scratch Beginnings. I’ll give you the link to the Amazon book review . I haven’t read it yet so I can’t express how it affected me, but what did affect me was his interview that spoke about not being a victim and how you take what you have been given and basically make the most of it.
I see our current challenges just in that way. We can surely say there are victims in our current mortgage chaos, consumers, industry employees displaced, current industry employees struggling in a new environment that they don’t yet know what to do with, investors, etc…but without a review of our own ability to deal, we have no chance to succeed.
Check out the book and let me know if it has any validity to motivate. I’d be interested to hear what you have found that helps get you focused and motivated. Happy Tuesday! I know mine will be worthwhile…
Lisa, great post. You’re absolutely right! Attitude is everything. True, it’s hard but that’s what keeps us growing. It’s often when we’re looking up at bottom (or somewhere thereabouts) that we learn the most.
Hi Lisa,
I just came across the blog. Great stuff! I really agree that attitude is everything. Keep up the good. work.
Lisa
Needed the pick me up today. Great post.