10 Winners Ready To Jump!
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 | Chris RoweRating:
Editor's Note: Today I'd like to let you into my life for a moment, with a story I believe can relate to your financial health and spirit. This is a rare opportunity to learn what can't be taught...
On Saturday, at 4 a.m., I started driving north to Orlando, Fla., to watch my 79-year-old grandmother, Susie Mann, jump out of an airplane and cheer her on as she conquered yet another adventure on her "bucket list" -- the list she made a few months ago after refusing treatment to slow the progress of the stage-4 intestinal cancer, which the doctor told her she now has.
For three LONG hours, driving up the north 95 interstate alone, I was debating whether or not to jump with her and risk an easily inflicted injury due to my disability.
'Fright' or Flight?
My wife, the mother of our two small children, had strongly discouraged me from even thinking about participating. Who can blame her?
However, she also didn't want to be the reason I didn't get to do something and, therefore, forever regret missing out.
So, 20 minutes before the planes took off, I got a text from her saying, "Just do it, baby!"
(Drat! My last hope of an "out" started flickering away before my eyes!)
Out of everyone there, I was the one who certainly was most frightened (as everyone pointed out and chuckled). They made fun of me, as they had never seen someone in a wheelchair pacing back-and-forth before.
What would you have done?
Will You Take the Leap?
Ladies, gentlemen, Tycoons -- I'm going to invite you into my family for a second by publicly writing a letter to Susie Mann.
I'm hoping to transfer the strength I've been blessed with being surrounded by, to you -- so that YOU might take a renewed look at any adversity you have facing you right now, whether it be financially or otherwise.
We've been lucky enough to have someone speak to you through me. I want to write this letter publicly...
Dear Susie,
THANK YOU. Thanks for showing us how to be strong, and thank you for showing us how to celebrate life. Thanks for letting me invite a group of people I've been communicating with for years at The Tycoon Report.
Thank you for giving me the courage to jump out of a plane! (See some pictures below.) I haven't been able to go through all the e-mails sent in by our inspired readers. (There are so many that an assistant spends the days reading them out loud while I work.)
CBS has been following you around creating the documentary because it's clear to them that you're someone whom almost everyone needs a strong dose of at some point.
As you know, I write (among other things) in a daily financial newsletter. I wanted to share your story with those who read it for two main reasons:
1. I just think everyone on earth should follow your example.
2. Lately, almost every single day, I hear from different people who have been dealt a tough blow -- whether it be a loss of their job, their home, their stock/options account or, far more important than that, even a loved one.
2. Lately, almost every single day, I hear from different people who have been dealt a tough blow -- whether it be a loss of their job, their home, their stock/options account or, far more important than that, even a loved one.
I don't hear only about the financial lives from our readers and members, but I also hear about all kinds of hardships, often because my readers are familiar with MY story.
Sometimes they reach out to me for inspiration, and I can't imagine giving a better example of a source of strength than what you've invited me into.
The best way I know how to fully respect that invitation is to spread the word as much as I can. To apply it to those in the financial world (our "audience"), I'll address those who've been knocked on their asses financially.
I hope my readers don't hear your story and simply say, "Hey, MY problems look small when compared to mortality. This puts things into perspective on what's important in life."
That's not my point, although it is a good one.
My point is not to make anyone's problems, in any aspect, look small by comparison. My goal is to, oddly as it may seem, draw parallels.
Of course, your situation is what we can consider the "ultimate" face-off. So, drawing the comparison simply isn't fair.
So I'll do my best to send the message in a way that puts all major adversity on the same level, and make this point:
When your back is against the wall, how are you gonna play it? Are you gonna lie down in the fetal position and exist? Or are you gonna stand up and live ...
... and maybe even fly?
Thank you, on behalf of all Tycoons!
PS: Of course, I have to also say thank you to Louise Weadock Rowe, for having the courage to step up on the global stage in this sensitive time and back Susie up by getting the encouraging message out.
Until next week, when we get back to profiting from high-probability situations.
I'll give you an update on how this Friday's Options GPS launch goes/went and how the school looks when the students "fill the hallways," so to speak.
Hope to see you there!
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