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Luxurious thought of the day…
May 28th, 2010 categories: Luxury Real Estate
ShareChange, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
~William Arthur Ward
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What’s in your next chapter?!
May 23rd, 2010 categories: Luxury in Sports
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Have you ever thought about changing gears? We continually strive for more – playing at the top of our game, being the best we can be, striving to get to the top. We want to sell more, make more, do more, be more. And not just in our careers. We go out and break 90 on the golf course, and return the next day to try to break 85. We had $10M in Sales in 2009 — and shoot for $15M in 2010.
It’s contagious. The more we achieve, the more we want to achieve.
So how do you define ‘retirement’? I call it ‘betterment’. Changing gears allowing us to do something that perhaps we hadn’t before considered. Along the lines of the ‘Blue Ocean’ theory. Retirement doesn’t have to mean stopping. In fact, I like to think of it as starting. Bettering. Growing in a new direction. Creating new opportunities.
Forbes Magazine put together this list of pro-athletes who retired in their prime. Each still a legend and each taking the opportunity to grow in a new direction. Works for me.
What’s in your next chapter? Worth thinking about. Have a look …
Bobby Jones: Five time winner of the US Amateur, 4- time winner of the US Open and winner of 3 British Opens, Bobby retired at age 28. He remains the only golfer ever to win all four major championships in the same year, the famous “Grand Slam of Golf.” Bobby went on to design the Augusta National Course with Alistair MacKensie.
Jim Brown: Best known for his record setting nine-year football career as a running back for the Cleveland Browns. He was named by The Sporting News as the greatest professional football player ever. He later went on to become a successful actor. Read the rest of this entry »
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