Powder Your Face with Sunshine

by Shannon Hicks
| 8 Comments
| August 9, 2013

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Maintaining happiness in challenging times

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It often seems elusive and often inplacably linked to our circumstances. Abraham Lincoln suffered incredible stress and horrific circumstances throughout his life and yet said. “Most foks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” An impressive perspective considering. Here are just a few ways we can stay happy or at least happier as we face monumental changes in the reverse mortgage industry.

Editor in Chief: HECMWorld.com

As a prominent commentator and Editor in Chief at HECMWorld.com, Shannon Hicks has played a pivotal role in reshaping the conversation around reverse mortgages. His unique perspectives and deep understanding of the industry have not only educated countless readers but has also contributed to introducing practical strategies utilizing housing wealth with a reverse mortgage.

Shannon’s journey into the world of reverse mortgages began in 2002 as an originator and his prior work in the financial services industry. Shannon has been covering reverse mortgage news stories since 2008 when he launched the podcast HECMWorld Weekly. Later, in 2010 he began producing the weekly video series The Industry Leader Update and Friday’s Food for Thought.

Readers wishing to submit stories or interview requests can reach our team at: info@hecmworld.com.

8 Comments

Cheryl Sheasby
August 9, 2013 at 3:52 am
What a great post – you made me smile!
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- Shannon HicksModerator
  August 9, 2013 at 8:17 am
  Thank you. I had to put this post to practice just recently. It worked! Have a great weekend!
  
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Tom MacDonald
August 9, 2013 at 6:12 am
;>)

Got me smiling already.
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- Shannon HicksModerator
  August 9, 2013 at 8:16 am
  Thank you! Knowing you are all smiling a bit more brings one to my face as well. Have a great weekend!
  
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Walt Gephart
August 9, 2013 at 1:47 pm
Very Cool ! You made me smile on a very tough and humid Friday. Thank you and have a great weekend. You are the man !
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Sylvia Williams
August 10, 2013 at 10:28 am
I love this, Shannon! I’m going to play it in my next sales meeting. Thanks so much!
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Bernadette Bastian
August 10, 2013 at 2:54 pm
Shannon…. I have listened to this clip 4 times already… It is very contagious…
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The_Cynic
August 12, 2013 at 9:28 am
How soon we forget. Some of the happiest songs of the modern era came from the voices of the wealthy movie stars during the Great Depression. If it were not for the Great Depression many argue that the lovely Miss Shirley Temple would never had the career she did.

When it comes to members of the Rat Pack (or the Summit as Sinatra originally named them), all was not as it seemed on the surface. Certainly Dean was not the boozer or philander he was made out to be. However, after his son died and he was facing his own mortality, here is how his agent, Mort Viner, allegedly described his behavior: “It’s obvious that Dean has resigned himself to facing death with a beer in one hand and a bottle of pills in the other.” No Dean was no martini drinking lush but neither was he the radiance of sunshine as depicted in the popular “tone” Shannon reminds us of.

Optimism alone could not turn the oil situation in Mexico around as witnessed by the announcement coming from Mexico today. It also has no cure for the HECMs in the MMI Fund. Optimism cannot change much. Like religion, it is the elixir of the down trodden.
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