What positive events have taken place in your life over the past year?
Improvements in my family, business and personal life. Success in my business being able to reach budget numerous times this year. Success in my personal life being able to go to the gym four times a week. And success in my family, life being able to spend more time with my family and friends. Had great success financially being able to save money and being able to plan overseas trip next year. Great year.
Do you ever see wild animals?
Below is the closest I ever get to wild animals.
Do you have a favorite place you have visited? Where is it?
My favourite place in the world is Sydney Harbour. It is absolutely beautiful. An absolute gem.It is paradise on earth. My other favourite place is Sydney’s northern beaches. It is a place close to my heart.
Never give up
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
What is one thing you would change about yourself?
One thing I would change about myself is not to take things personally and learn to let things go. You can not control everything.
Are you more of a night or morning person?
I am more of a morning person. Love to sieze the day and take charge and not to waste any time. The most valuable asset in life is time.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
What are your two favorite things to wear?
My citizen watch in my beautiful ring. Both have sent a mental values to me of family
They are gifts that remind me of great times great places and great events.
Six ways to make people like you
In a Nutshell: Six Ways to Make People Like You 1. Become genuinely interested in other people. 2. Smile. 3. Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. 4. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. 5. Talk in terms of the other person’s interests. 6. Make the other person feel important — and do it sincerely.
What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why?
Selling my business that I started after 16 years. The blood sweat and tears of starting my own retail business and selling it was one of the hardest decisions that I ever made. The effort and freedom that it allowed me I thought I was going to lose. The uncertain future that I faced was a concern. Once I had sold my business a new chapter in my life begun. One door closed and another opened.
Tony Monteleone 