Listen to What Tony Marino Has To Say When He Answered the Heroes Question "When Was The Lowest Point In Your Life and How Did You Change Your Life Path To One Of Victory Over the Obstacles You Were Facing at That Time?"
Tony Marino: I would have to say that it was probably, death is always a bad thing. I lost a girlfriend many years ago that I loved dearly. I was young. It was young love. That was very tragic.
You know, losing grandparents. My grandpa was just very, very dear to me, losing him in the early eighties. My Godmother that was a tough one. In business, making wrong decisions, hooking up with the wrong people, being overly zealous.
I’ve gone through the ups and downs of business and I think business failures about 15 years ago with a bankruptcy. It was ugly. I didn’t mean to make it go there. It was probably just young, immature, stupid, didn’t manage things properly, didn’t see things that were on the horizon, didn’t react quickly enough when they exposed themselves.
But I take full accountability. I don’t blame my partners. We all took a hit and lost everything. You pull yourself up by your bootstraps. The old Horatio Alger story and you go forward or you just go dry up and go live in a corner somewhere and just keep your head down.
I could never do that. I just felt that there was that I had a mission and there was a plan. I have to fulfill that plan. So I feel that as long as I keep my body moving and my brain staying positive and just realizing that all the things that we go through in our lives are really there to help us learn and make us stronger.
It can really set your attitude in a whole new direction. I always try to look forward and upward. That’s where I try to focus my sites.