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“Impossible is just an opinion.”

—Paulo Coelho

Beginning Again Differently, or being BAD, is possible for anyone who refuses to give up. Reading this book, or any book, means that you believe, too, that anything is possible, that you can do something differently to get different results. My hope for each reader is that something is different for you when you finish this book.

Throughout this book, I reference the many people who I have “copied” from to become the person that was able to begin again differently.

As a teacher, for most of my life, I learned early on that we, as educators, steal from each other. If one teacher has a great way to teach the parts of speech, then all others could take the idea or use the plan the same way to get the right results. The same would happen if one teacher had a great lesson planning strategy or a great way to manage student outbursts, then everyone would steal the idea or use the plan to manage their student outbursts. Harry Wong, best-selling author of The First Days of School, made the term famous “teachers can steal” by publicly stating that “it is okay for educators to steal” good ideas, strategies that work, practical assignments, and other things teachers do that other teachers don’t have to re-create because someone has already done something successfully.

Please don’t be surprised when you read this book and see that I reference and give credit to those people who I have learned from to begin again differently. I really believe in not re-creating the wheel a reference to not building another mousetrap. I get great joy in sharing and name-dropping those people who have made a difference in my life.

My disclaimer right away is that people who are powerful and famous are sometimes polarizing, such that people have decided to either hate them or love them. My hope is that you will look towards the messages I share from these people instead of whether you like these people.

I focus a lot in this book about what I’ve learned from two major influences on my journey of beginning again differently. These people strongly influenced me, and I believe God sent them to help me begin again differently: Dave Ramsey, founder of the Lampco Group, Ramsey Solutions, and bestselling author; and Joel Osteen, Pastor of Lakewood Church—the largest congregational church in America with 90,000 members—and best-selling author.

I agree that no man is an island, and I believe we all need someone to help us on our journeys in life. By reading and listening to both Dave and Joel, I was able to begin again differently—beginning with listening to hundreds of Joel Osteen’s messages on SiriusXM radio every morning starting around 4:30 a.m., and attending my first Entreleadership One-Day Event on October 16, 2016, by listening to Dave explain the concepts in his book, Entreleadership.

According to Rockefeller to be successful you need to focus, focus, focus. I encourage you to focus as you read the messages within the seven smart processes so that you can make a decision to begin again differently after suffering a loss.