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Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it.

When I was 5, my parents went through a nasty divorce. My dad took it upon himself to clean out the bank accounts before my mom could do it. My mom mentioned to me that he had taken all of the money, even the funds from my college savings account. At 5 years old, I had already figured out that 1) My dad took all of our money which led to 2) Men cannot be trusted with money and 3) My dad doesn't care about me because he stole from me. Wow, what a perception for a 5 year old. However, that's just the story I came up with based on the information I was given.

As I got older, I also got much more objective.

You see, the truth is, my dad never stole from me. His intent and purpose aroung taking those funds was not to withhold my future college funds, it was to beat my mom to taking any money from their accounts. He never thought of it as "Hey, let me take this money so Mary can't have any of it."  If you've been through a divorce, and it was nasty, you may have even been in a similar situation.  His taking of the money had nothing to do with me, and everything to do with my Mom during their break up.

How many resentments are you harboring because your perception was wrong or misguided?  Think back to that "incident" and put yourself in the shoes of your offender. Take yourself out of the equation...and ask yourself what the other options might have been. What do you think they were thinking? What are just the facts versus your interpretation of this "story" in your mind?  What is the OTHER point of view? 

Life on this planet is just way too short to harbor resentments against those around us. Harmony begets harmony. Peace begets peace. Forgiveness begets forgiveness. 

I encourage you to get objective, and monitor your "reaction" to life's ups and downs. After all, aren't there some people in your life who might need to do the same for you??

Work. Play. Work. Play. Rinse. Repeat.

I wanted to comment on what an amazing month this has been, and then I reminded myself that this whole year has been amazing!  It's been one year since I moved to Sugar Land to run the Home Office for Wealth Masters. 12 months has flown by, and then I'm reminded that I have nieces who have just reached drinking age, which means 12 years have apparently also flown by!

Marco Island, Florida last winter for the m2; Budapest, Hugary in April for the m3; Phoenix and Dallas for the CCP Marketing events; Las Vegas for the summer m2; and then another trip planned for beautiful Marco Island again in November could not make my work-fun schedule any better.  Top that off with my own personal trips to the Caribbean and 12 days in Europe sailing the Mediterranean and I am in heaven.  (Well, that  final destination is planned for a future trip, anyways.)

If you would have asked me 10 years ago what I thought my life would be like today? Well, I knew it would good, but this is better than I ever imagined. I met Kip & Karl almost 10 years ago now, and my life has never been the same since.  There have been some mistakes made along the way but the good news is that I took most of the financial tips I got from Kip and applied them...and those were some of the best decisions I have ever made for myself.

So here's my question of the day for you: Looking over the last 10 years of your life, do you like where you've been?

If the answer is yes, then please share with me what it is that you've been doing and what you are looking forward to most!  

If the answer is no, then what are your consistent habits that are keeping you with your consistent results, that are not taking you where y ou want to go and how do you plan on stopping the insanity? (insanity: doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results).   No need to post your reply, but it might be a good idea to revisit the past, so you can alter your future!  

Update on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 12:19PM by Mary Dee

m2 is less than one month away. Wow.

Speaking of wow...did you know that:

* A duck's quack doesn't echo? No one knows why.
* A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
* Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks or it will digest itself.
*A raisin dropped in a glass of champagne wil vounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

Pretty weird eh? Makes me want to go try out that champagne one now...