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"In times of adversity"? My experience with the real world, especially the real world professionally, is that all times are full of adversity. If they aren't, I'm not doing things right.
What keeps me going? The knowledge that somewhere out there one of my competitors is taking a shortcut and as soon as it pops up in front of me, I'll give him a haircut. Work is a constant grind. Again, if it's not, you're not doing it right. The Secret is to accept the grind as a part of yourself and to get off on it. I love the fact that I work harder and longer than any of my competitors and that they run in fear when they see me on the other end of something.
On the home front, it's family. In good times or bad, there's always something good going on somewhere, whether its going to a nephew's soccer game or listening to my son babble something incomprehensible. There are some very bad things going on in parts of my family, but there's lots of good to balance that out.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
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