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How To Deal With Setbacks

I am often asked how do you come back from a major setback, or how can you keep pursuing your dream of success. It is not always easy, but there is a Chinese story I like to reference when I tell people to keep going. I have listed it below. My advice, " Just be bigger. " " Become a Lake " - a Taoist-Chinese story An aging master grew tired of his apprentice complaining, and so, one morning, he sent him for some salt. When the apprentice returned, the master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a cup of water and then to drink it.   "How does it taste?" the master asked. "Bitter," spit the apprentice. The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake, and once the apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water, the old man said, "Now drink from the lake." As the water dripped down the young

Blow Me Down

This is a link to T. Boone Picken's dream of moving this great country off our addiction to oil. It all starts with wind (Lord knows the politicians have enough of it). View my page on PickensPlan