What I have learned about setbacks is that it is part of life and nobodies life is perfect. I don't care who you are, money or no money we all get setbacks every now and then because it is part of life lesson. If life was made perfect then we don't need to think for ourselves. So welcome to life if you still don't get it.
I have no regret in life, I have learned to move on and learn from my mistake. Accept it, learn from it and move on, this is how I deal with setbacks in my life. I had so much setbacks in my life but from all my setbacks I have learned from it and that is why I am a better person today. If I had to write down every setbacks or mistake in my life word by word it would be a book by it self, so I'm not going to write about all of them in deep detail.
I was born in Laos in 1979 and just found out by my mom she wanted to give me up for adoption because she couldn't care for me, lucky my dad didn't want to give me up, thanks dad then my family and I became a refugee in Thailand and the Philippines at the age of 5 or 6 not sure because it's been to long. I came to America and was called a boater meaning someone that just got of the boat and didn't speak any English, duh how could we but anyway I got here on a Boeing plane if anybody didn't know that. People that was using a boat was way back then like the founder of America and the first wave of immigrant, everybody knows who they are and if you don't Google it.
We landed in Cleveland, Ohio 1987.Thanks to the two Church that sponsor us to bring us here. Dad bought a home for the family 1989, mom left dad 1992 and took the kids to Redding, California. Blood and Crip gangs was everywhere, Welcome to Cali life and if you don't know Google (gangs of L.A). 1996, I moved back to Cleveland to stay with my dad and then got in some trouble as a teen. I had just gotten my diver license at 16 and then lost it a year later because of run in with the law. Got locked up and did sometime in juvenile hall.
When I got out of juvenile hall, I moved back to California with mom again, try to go back to school but didn't have enough credit to graduate with my class mate, class of 1998. So I went and took a test to get my G.E.D, pass it 1997. moved out of Redding, Ca to the bay Area to look for a job and I told my mom that when I turn 18, I was moving out never been back since better yet I moved mom to stay with me in 2009 when my 3rd child was born but before all that I was in Kansas and traveling around the State for a little bite. I just got out of jail again before moving to Washington State on Aug,1998.
2001 got my first DUI and then 2002 got my second DUI not so nice but anyway the judge made me stay in jail for 2 month to think about it. I guess it was a good thing because I did think about it and even save up $75.00 before I got out. I was working in the jail house kitchen washing the dish for $4.25 a day and that is eight hour of working. When I got out of jail I had told myself no more trouble and then I went to get a job then met my girlfriend. Now she is my wife.
Married my wife in 2003 and had our first child 2004. After that I was working on cleaning up my bad credit, it took me over a year to do that then we bought our first home 2005, had our second child 2006 and finally got my diver license back after almost ten years. 2007 we bought our second home, I was 27 years old and my wife was 23 years old then at the end of 2007 the housing market crash. 2008 my wife got laid off and both our two homes lost value by every month and now my home value is half of what I bought it for. I went and got a second full time job just to make end meet because I didn't want to lose everything we work so hard for then she had gotten pregnant again in 2009 with our third child then my dad past away May 2009 and when my son was born Nov, 2009. I went down to California to move my mom and mentally challenge older brother here to Washington State. I Had to give up on my first home/ rental too because it was getting to much for me to handle 2010 then that when I trademarked "Must Be Nice" for kids clothing and "MBN2B Life Passion Attitude Pride" apparel for adult.
Now here I am still doing it and hopefully I can get this done soon with my wife now working it gonna me help out a lot more, she was laid of for over 2 years. She just started her job July 2011. So setbacks I know a little thing about it. Don't let setbacks in life stop you from doing anything you want. We all get it but it's takes a strong person to over come and learn from it.~real talk~
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