I don't know you, but I understand where you are coming from. As for starting over at 40, that can be a blessing instead of a curse. After all, you are much more mature and possess a greater amount of wisdom than you did the last time you started out. Here's a little tale for you:
A man who was over 60 was once offered $200K for his gas station/restaurant/hotel business, but he turned it down. He just wasn't ready to retire yet. Only a few years later though he found himself broke as the state had bypassed his establishment with a new interstate highway. Now, at 65 years old, he found he had to start over again.
Many men would have sat and cried, and this one might have done so as well, but he decided he wasn't going to give up. He knew where his strength lay, and so he set out to change his fortunes. He packed what he knew into his car, and set out to try and sell his idea. Many times he even slept in the car, as he didn't have enough money to get a hotel. Still, he pushed on.
In inly a few years, this man had built the largest franchise organization of its type in the world. On TV we saw him over and over, plugging his new organization, and we loved his product.
The man? Col. Sanders, and the product was Kentucky Fried Chicken. It's never too late to start over, and many times it can be the best thing that ever happened to us.
Shiny Side Up!
Bill
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Never met a man with real talent who felt the need to deride the efforts of other.
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