Ron Valega, IICRC Instructor, starts our classes with a talk about attitude. Then he tells the story of starting out as a restoration company owner. As his business was failing, he was hanging out with another business owner whose business was doing even worse than his. One night he went home to his wife and said, “Good News! Joe is only going to make it another two months before going under; we got four.” Then, something struck him. Ron realized in that moment how sick and twisted his behavior and thought process was. He would time his arrival at work specifically so that he did not have to see his staff. They had bad attitudes. He realized he owned a company he did not like; he told himself it was acceptable and was justified by comparing himself to the people and business owners who were in worse shape than him.