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We recently attended the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World regional conference in Atlanta, GA. Business Consultant and Speaker, Mike Staver gave a powerful presentation regarding how to stay positive when times are tough. Here are
four simple steps we can take each day:

1) Gratitude: Think of 5 things you are thankful each morning (life, faith, family, country, city, successes, home, pets, life’s comforts, etc….)

2) Abundance: Think of the things you have an abundance of (love, family, friends, food, clothing, shelter, knowledge, experience, etc…)

3) STOP watching/listening to the news and STOP reading the paper! We are constantly bombarded with negative news. The vast majority of the stories are useless because they rarely cover the topics in depth, they rarely cover varying perspectives, and they rarely focus on solutions.

4) FOCUS ON THE THINGS YOU CAN CONTROL!! For example:
While we cannot control the economy, the housing market, our home’s
appreciation/depreciation, our investment returns, the media, the weather, etc….we can certainly control the amount of time and effort we put into our work and we can certainly control our attitudes and the way we treat others! The simple truth is that our chances for success and happiness dramatically increase when we work hard and have a positive attitude.