Countdown!

For all of you who are candidates for public office or otherwise, I was told something once that I will never forget. And that was that if by Election Day, you were not ready to be admitted to a hospital for sheer exhaustion, then you did not do enough.

And you know what? I always felt like I was! That did not mean you were guaranteed a win. It just meant that you had given it your best shot.

If you put your race in that perspective, have you done everything to can do to win? Or lose?

Everything you have been working for for the last six months to a year is staring you in the face. There isn't much time left to try to raise more money for just one more ad in the newspaper, or one more commercial on television, or to print up just one more doorhanger with a message to the voters.

The feelings you are feeling now and the feelings you will have until and after Election Day, win or lose, are feelings you will not forget.

Some of the feelings can be the highest highs you will ever feel in your life and others can cause you to go into deep depressions. A person's self-image is what is at stake too, as well as an election.

Only 50% of the candidates will win and go home on a high. The rest are left to deal with a severe blow to their self-image. Doubts and depression are common place. That is the very reason why if someone runs for election and loses the first time out, the majority will never run again.

Two years from now there will be another election, but will you have the courage to run again if you did not win the first time?

I can not emphasize enough to the campaign staff to get together with the candidate the day after the election, win or lose, and talk about it.

If the election was lost, no blame should be put anywhere. Everyone should feel good about all the hard work and heart that was been put into trying to get someone elected.

Don't leave the candidate all alone to feel embarrassed, defeated, and depressed. Everyone did their best and you dont want to burn any bridges.

Smile at each other, give each other a hug, take a month off and start planning for the next campaign.

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