Struggling is the price we pay for success and the giants among us never surrender, it is the struggles that have made them great. John Mason in Know Your Limits - Then Ignore Them (Nugget) states “Problems are the price of progress. The problems in life are intended to make us better not bitter.”
In Launching a Leadership Revolution Chris Brady and Orrin Woodward write a about a concept they call “desert experience.” Moses was forced to march the Israelites through the desert for 40 years to condition them as a people to inherit the promised land of Canaan. Jesus went out into the desert to pray and prove his abilities to resist temptation totally. President Ronald Reagan is said to have encountered his “desert experience” when his movie star career and marriage ended almost simultaneously following World War II. He had been a rising star making hundreds of movies and was married to the Actress of the Year, but a divorce and a change in his contracts left him alone, doing small bit-parts on television and traveling the country as a national spokesperson for GE. It was a drop in status few people would relish, and it lasted for years.
A Reagan biographer Peggy Noonan, tells of how his years on the road speaking for GE actually built Ronald Reagan the politician. It was no accident that he later came to be known as “the Great Communicator.” He circled from town to town, meeting tens of thousands of mainstream Americans and learning about them and how they thought. It was those skills he learned in those lean years, his desert experience , that armed him for what was to be one of the greatest presidencies in United States history. It is said that every problem introduces a man to himself, and Reagan’s speechmaking years introduced the actor to the statesman.
Now as we in real estate go through our desert experience let us focus on what is, and what we can do with it the way it is to become better conditioned to meet the future head on.
In Launching a Leadership Revolution Chris Brady and Orrin Woodward write a about a concept they call “desert experience.” Moses was forced to march the Israelites through the desert for 40 years to condition them as a people to inherit the promised land of Canaan. Jesus went out into the desert to pray and prove his abilities to resist temptation totally. President Ronald Reagan is said to have encountered his “desert experience” when his movie star career and marriage ended almost simultaneously following World War II. He had been a rising star making hundreds of movies and was married to the Actress of the Year, but a divorce and a change in his contracts left him alone, doing small bit-parts on television and traveling the country as a national spokesperson for GE. It was a drop in status few people would relish, and it lasted for years.
A Reagan biographer Peggy Noonan, tells of how his years on the road speaking for GE actually built Ronald Reagan the politician. It was no accident that he later came to be known as “the Great Communicator.” He circled from town to town, meeting tens of thousands of mainstream Americans and learning about them and how they thought. It was those skills he learned in those lean years, his desert experience , that armed him for what was to be one of the greatest presidencies in United States history. It is said that every problem introduces a man to himself, and Reagan’s speechmaking years introduced the actor to the statesman.
Now as we in real estate go through our desert experience let us focus on what is, and what we can do with it the way it is to become better conditioned to meet the future head on.
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