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Here's your success mentor Darren Hardy.

Good morning Darren dear and daily friends.

So this morning, I'm going to pull another clip from a private advisory session I did for

a large network of mortgage professionals.

I think these answers will also help you navigate our ever changing world.

The question that was asked is this. What pivotal skills must a leader hone to weather the storm of difficult times

in order to emerge triumphantly in the face of adversity.

So here's the advice that I gave.

My parents divorced when I was 18 months old.

My mother never wanted kids, so when she left, she just handed me to my father walked out the

front door never looked back right and my dad was only 23 years of age when I was

born so he didn't have a clue of what to do either right he was a

university football coach so he only knew how to parent like he coached football and like the Tom

Hank's movie a League of their own. There's no crying in baseball. Well there's

certainly and most definitely no crying in football. So there was no crying in our

household. You got used to hearing two things in our house.

Either stop your sniveling and tough it out or keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about,

which the last one always baffled me. Anyway, the point is I was taught to control my emotions, to disconnect from what I was feeling and handle most situations mentally.

And I found that many people of my generation, probably like the way you grew up, Gary, and most definitely, you know, those that are listening, were raised with a very similar philosophy, right? The term emotional came to mean weak, out of control, even

childish. Don't be a baby, we say to the little boy who's crying on the playground, leave

him alone, let him work it out as we admonished a little girl who runs over to try to help the little boy.

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