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Here's your success mentor, Darin Hardy.

A few years back, I was hosting a crucial web conference.

A $10 million deal was on the line.

For three weeks, I'd worked to get all the financial and political players for the company

on the line for a company that I advise.

It was 15 minutes before the conference was supposed to start, and then it happened.

My computer monitor just went blank.

My polycom phone made that funny little burp sound that makes when you unplug it.

And all the lights in my San Diego home went black.

Panicked.

I ran outside to check the breaker.

My neighbor yelled that his power was out too.

So I went to log into the go-to meeting website.

Nothing.

No power to the cable modem meant no power to the internet.

I tried my cell phone to alert someone, no cell service, which meant no texting, no tweeting

or Facebooking.

Serious panic now, maybe a poll on our street must have been hit, I thought.

So I grabbed my laptop, I jumped in my car, and I raced down to the local Starbucks.

The store was completely dark.

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