Explore Joshua Page's journey in the Electrician Industry

So to me, I think rootless means burning your boat. So there’s nothing to tie me up. There’s no plan B. Captain Cortez back in the 1500s, burned his ships, went to war and told his men “We perish or we win” and obviously they won. To me that’s it, there’s no plan B. I don’t have anyone else to lean on whether it works or doesn’t work. We’re all going to learn our lessons. We just keep moving on. So for me, I think that’s what it means to be rootless.

Before I went into trade school, my mom passed away at the age of 37. I was 13 years old. She had a brain tumor and I went to live with my father. I hated school, I knew I wasn’t going to go to college. At some point I found out about this trade school where you only had to go to school twice a month. One week was in academics, and one in trades. I rushed to sign up because I don’t want to go to school. I always loved the animatronics and the makeup in the movies. That’s what I wanted to do. So I went to trade school to go into cosmetology when I wanted to do makeup. However, once I figured out what cosmetology was all about, I didn’t feel like I could do it for the rest of my life. I went into plumbing but I failed at that. I had a bunch of friends that went to electrical so I thought to give it a try. High school wasn’t easy, so I ran away twice. The second time I went to live with my aunt. I finished high school for my aunt. I was suspended during my freshman year for smoking in the bathroom, I was suspended during my sophomore year for throwing a ninja star made out of copper wire and I was suspended my junior year for mooning another kid. The police brought me in and said that if he wanted to press charges, I would have to register as a sex offender for the rest of my life. Thankfully he didn’t and I learned my lessons, but I was suspended during my freshman and sophomore year. During my sophomore year I spent my summer in summer school for Electrical Trades. I failed at that and then senior year I finally decided that I’d live with my aunt. My mom passed away. I didn’t talk to my dad. I had nothing else, I had to smarten up, I had to grow up, I had to figure things out. So a week after I graduated, I joined a big electrical company, went to school, and went to work. I achieved my journeyman license within three years after that, I achieved my master electrician’s license and then in that same time I started teaching on Saturdays. So I was the youngest electrician ever to teach in their school at 21 years old. I taught level three apprentices and then that lasted for about eight years. However, I really want to do my own thing. I wanted to go out and start my own business, I wanted to be there for my kids. So in 2010, I left. I did a few other businesses before getting into the electrical business. Then, in 2011, I started my own company and in 2013 I started J P Electric and Son Inc. Then in 2015 I purchased another company and in 2017 I purchased another company and here we are in 2023.

I grew up in Templeton, Massachusetts, a small little village town, essentially in central Mass. That’s where I went to school. That’s where I grew up. From there I moved to a couple other towns but that’s where I grew up.

So life was pretty normal. I came from a divorce family. My parents divorced when I was about two years old, so I spent every other weekend with my father. I spent a lot of time with my mom. She didn’t remarry. She had a couple of boyfriends and one solid boyfriend for about five, six years before she passed and that was my second dad. That was my family, my mom and her boyfriend, Dennis. Me and mom were extremely close. I have a stepbrother, Trevor. He’s six years younger than me, but I would always see him every other weekend. When I went to my dad’s house, we’d play together. We used to go to the jungle gym or whatever else. We spent a lot of time outside, but growing up was pretty normal. I wasn’t wasn’t the best kid. I was an only child when I lived with my mom and I wasn’t that great at school. I just didn’t like school. I just could never understand it. I probably was getting in trouble a lot, but it wasn’t until high school when I started to rebel a lot because I was confused, I was lost. I lost my mom, I had to give up my dog. I had to move in with my dad. I was sleeping on the top bunk at my brother’s bed before I got my own bedroom. When you’re 14 years old in a new high school and someone finds out your mom died, that’s the one thing they attack on, every single time. So I would constantly get into fights, arguments, in order to protect my mom at all costs.

So the first time happened a few months into living with my dad. By then I had a bedroom in the basement and me and my step mother just never got along. Growing up, we never got along. One time, we just had this argument and I had made the decision that I had to run away. So I put my mountain bike on the side of the garage, I went down into the basement and about 11: 00 that night I woke up and my heart was beating out of my chest. I slowly walked through the basement to the basement door, I remember turning the handle, opening the door, and stepping out as I shut the door behind me. I ran. I grabbed the bike, I drew it over the chain link fence, climbed up over the chain link. I jumped onto the bike and I wrote about 30 minutes to my girlfriend’s house at the time who lived about two towns away. When I got to her house, she lived on the second floor of the raised ranch, so I picked up some pebbles off the ground and threw it out her window. All of a sudden her bedroom light went on and then the front porch light went on, the front door opened and I saw her mom and I was busted. So she said she had to bring me back to my dad’s. I refused to go back to live there. I asked her to call my aunt, who is my mom’s sister, to pick me up. I went to school the next morning and then I was unfortunate to go back with my dad that night. So it was brief, but it didn’t make anything better at home, that’s for sure. I just couldn’t stay there. I always felt that I was sleeping over at a friend’s house. I always felt like I didn’t belong, I almost had to ask to grab a snack or pass to go to the fridge.

It was during senior year because there was nothing else. I was graduating. I was living in my aunt’s house, which I’m so grateful and thankful to her and my uncle for allowing me to live there but I couldn’t live there forever. I was doing the electrical trades program but at that time, I didn’t really care about it. In senior year, I found it kind of cool. So, I graduated on June sixth and I think it was the middle of August when I moved into my first apartment. It’s funny because I always told my aunt when I moved in there that when I turned 18, I was going to leave. I want to because I was always told how to do everything, where to go. So, I moved out and I had my first apartment in August of 2002. Real quick story, I met my girlfriend of probably about six months before that from New Jersey. My best friend was her cousin. So she moved up. We started dating in January 2003. She moved up in June of 2003 and in November 2003, we bought our first house. I was 19 years old when I bought my first house. My girlfriend moved in and we’ve been married for 16 years now and we have two kids and we took guardianship of my niece a few years ago.

When I graduated, I went right into working full time for an electrical company. I loved it because I think it was just a sense of pride that I never felt before, the fact that I could actually grab material for all the plans, build it, and then I see the lights turn on or the outlet work or the fire alarm go off. It was also this big sense of community on these big construction sites where we were like 15, 20 electricians in this company and then a bunch of roofers and plumbers and welders and some sites had 300 people on them. I just loved building and I didn’t realize how much I loved building in my hands. I think that’s what really got me going, when I felt like the whole world was collapsing around me. That was what I could control. I could control building something, putting the outlet in, making it work, building it, and I could see that instant gratification we’re all looking for at times in that. I could grab these parts, I could build it, I could see it, and I could walk away and say that was cool or dangerous or I could drive by and say I worked on that house or I worked on that building. So that’s where I think the beginning of the electrical trade for me was.

I would say no, because I don’t think I’m smart. Even to this day, I don’t think I’m very smart. I just think I make a lot of mistakes and learn from them faster than anybody else. So, in this particular company, we had school on Saturday morning, so all the apprentices would go to school from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.. They had other electricians teaching us in first year, second year, third and fourth year. If you don’t have that avenue, usually it’s two nights a week, usually from 6 to 9 p.m on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It’s a lot though. So to become an electrician in Massachusetts, you need 8,000 work hours, which is essentially four years. If you just came off the street, you had no trade knowledge. I think it’s 2,000 hours a year, so that’s four years. You also need 600 theory hours, which is 150 school hours a year times 4 and that’s 600. So it’s essential you do your schooling for four years and do your work for four years, and then you test to become a journeyman electrician.

I got my license in 2005. Back then, I think it was it’s closed-book test. I think it was about 6 hours. You had to do a lot of calculations, a lot of code book stuff. However, if you’re going to school and you’re learning and then you go to take your test, there’s no reason to worry. The only way that I’ve seen people fail is if they don’t test well in general, some people just get really nervous about tests, it can be a spelling bee and they still fail. if you know your material and the code book and you care about it and you’ve been doing it for years, it’s going to be enough.

What people think a master electrician is, they usually have a misguided view. The master electrician doesn’t make you a master electrician that can control all the voltage, electricity and lightning bolts. The master electrician is just a business license in the state of Massachusetts. So a journeyman electrician can only employ one apprentice/helper and that’s it. They have to call themselves like I did, Joshua Page Electrician. That’s all they can be known by. They can’t say Page Electric because that’s an electric company. They are only electricians. The master electrician gives them a business license where you go to school for another 150 hours. You need to work for another 2,000 hours, then you test for the master electrician, which is about taxes and business code and law and a deeper knowledge about electrical. Then, you can employ as many electricians as you want. The ratio is 1:1, one electrician to one apprentice, but you can employ as many electricians as you want. So, that’s the difference between a Master electrician and a journeyman electrician.

Yeah, there’s a lot of opportunities right now, especially in any trade: plumbers, electricians, roofers, welders. I mean, we’re all looking for help. The best thing to do for someone that really wants to become an electrician is to start in school and find a good size, reputable company, a three or four man electrical company probably won’t have an opening for an apprentice right away, but a big union or nonunion shop is going to have those opportunities for you. You’ll learn a lot there. There’s so many different avenues in this trade where some people just like to work on houses, some people love commercial work, some people only want to do service work, which is fixing and repairing things in houses or buildings, some just want to do solar, nowadays there’s so much now the electric vehicle chargers, there’s so much opportunity in that. This is a great time to consider becoming an electrician because there’s no robots that are going to take our place. Could we build a house with 3D printing? Sure but somewhere along the line, you’ll need a plumber or an electrician, that’s going to be putting in the toilets and the water lines and electrical lines. I don’t see a time in my lifetime when that will ever be replaced maybe to a point it possibly could be easier, like a wireless outlet or a wireless light but when things go wrong, you still need to have the skill set to troubleshoot that and I don’t think no robot or computer will ever be able to figure that out.

So, you know, work is not easy at times. Work is hard, you know, some companies start at 4am, some somebody start at 5 a.m. Our company starts at 8 a.m. because we do a lot with homeowners and nobody wants us in their house before 8 a.m. But typically you’re going to go to an office location and get into a company van, get all your tools, all your parts. You figure out your workload that day. You’re revising 6 houses or 5 buildings or working on a big project, and we’re working all year long. So you might be on a roof when it’s 100 degrees outside or you might be outside installing a pipe in the ground when it’s 20 degrees out. So you can adjust to the occasion and be prepared for it. There’s no McDonald’s, Burger King, that’s sitting in the truck. So you have to bring your own food, bring a cooler with lunch and snacks and plenty of water. It’s not our responsibility to make sure that you’re fed, you’re an adult. You have to bring your own food. You know, there’s not a microwave in the van. Some construction sites might have it, but typically, no. you’re bringing your cold lunch and water and snacks and whatever else that you need for that day. So that way you can sustain life and be productive.

I want somebody that is ready to learn, that is ready for a career. There’s a lot of people out there that are looking for a job and to me the job is just something that you make money with but then they somehow don’t get happier. They want to make another $0.50 and they jump to the next job and then the next job in the next job. The electrical trade is a career. You have to start at the bottom like we all did in order to grow to get to the top. So you have to be the guy that’s going to be putting in pipes in the ground or banging ground rods or out in the cold or doing the tasks that nobody wants to do, cleaning up and vacuuming. We all have to start that way. I’m still on my hands and I go to work and I’ll clean up. I’m not any lower or any higher than anybody else. However, we all have to start at the bottom. We have to work our way up. Iif you’re going to be an electrician or anyone in the trades, you have to be ready for the career. You have to be willing to put in the hours and want it more than anybody else. If you have a regular job, you can just show up and do the job and you’re perfectly fine. I don’t want to downplay anybody, but the cashier is a job. You’re there and you do the same task every single day and whether you’re faster or slower really doesn’t matter. But in a career, you always have to want to be learning. If you’re working in houses, learn about fire systems or learn about the new low voltage technology or learn about electric vehicles. That way, you’re always trying to build on that knowledge.

So typically it’s 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week. There are some companies that are doing ten, 12 hour days, some that are doing overtime, working nights and weekends. For me, it’s always 40 hours a week. We typically don’t do a lot of overtime, but there are a lot of companies that do. So if you want to make more money, overtime is available.

I think the best way is on the job. There’s only so much you can learn in the books, but you’re going to learn formulas and calculations and code, specific stuff like how far apart an outlet needs to be or how far from the staple to the next wire. You learn that in the codes, but the best way to learn is really on the job. My best apprentices have always been kids that have climbed trees when they were younger, worked on their dirt bikes, worked on their cars, anything that is very tactile that they’ve been able to figure out or take apart or put together. I’ve had a kid that was A student in electrical, a student in the books, wonderful but he couldn’t put it from brain to fingertips. He could not figure it out. He drove one of our vans three quarters of a mile into the woods through a swamp because GPS told him to. So there’s no thought process. I don’t know how he became a licensed electrician a few years ago. I think you have to be able to put it from your brain to your fingertips and some people just can’t. They can test wonderfully well and be awesome and have A’s and college prep courses and all this stuff but if they can’t turn a screwdriver, they’re worthless.

When I train the apprentices, I’m always advising them to try to be the one step ahead of their electrician. So you always have to plan ahead. If you’re looking at them taking down something, think about the next step that they’re going to take? Are they going to need another ladder? Will they need wire? Will they need a connector? Always be prepped and ready, don’t just sit there holding it out, but just be ready for them. So I would always self advocate, always willing to learn and ask questions. The best thing about working in the trades is that you can work with three different people in a week and over time you can assess that you liked the way Steve did that and didn’t like the way John did it. Then, you take your own way of doing it and you become a much better tradesperson because you take a little bit from every person and model them.

I didn’t want my kids to be out in the right field of baseball looking for their dad like I used to do. My mom passed away at that point, so I only had dad and sometimes he’d show up and sometimes he wouldn’t. I didn’t want my kids to go through that. When you do construction work, when you work in trades, sometimes you leave at five in the morning and go home at night. I didn’t want that because we were starting a family. I didn’t want to be that dad. I wanted to be there for them. I wanted to put my kids on the bus, get them to school, and go to their play rehearsals. I wanted to coach sports, I wanted to be a part of it. I went to the company owner and told him I wanted to be something in this company and it took up to a full year for him to pull me to his office. By that time, I was already starting to create my own company and doing things on the side. So at that point it was almost too late. I was doing a lot of work, not only electrical work, but I had a couple other businesses and felt it was finally the time I had to do it. So when I quit that electrical company, I was making good money. I had two weeks paid vacation, full health insurance, and I left when my wife and I were married for a year. We had a one month old son and we had a mortgage and I had $750 in my pocket. However, just like I said when we started this rootless interview, I burned the ships and I wasn’t turning back. If I ever give myself a plan B, I’m never going to continue.

I probably was. It’s been a while now, but I’ve always had the full 110% support from my wife. So without her support, I don’t think I would want more. She always tells me that she doesn’t care if we end up in a cardboard box as long as we’re still together. So, we have to keep building. Furthermore, she’s her own entrepreneur, she owns a daycare center, and she’s doing phenomenal. She’s been in business for 10 years now.

You must live your life with purpose, because otherwise life isn’t worth living. Money is only going to get you so far. However, it’s what we feel inside that matters. If you don’t follow that, you’re one day going to be lying on your deathbed wishing you would have done that. I don’t want that. I don’t want to be lying on my deathbed wishing I had more money or wishing I would have worked more or worked longer. My hope is to get on that deathbed and feel that I lived a good life, my kids were there, I was there for all my kids’ sports and I did the best I could.

I used to advertise a lot on Craigslist at that time. I don’t think Facebook was around or any social media for that matter. My wife and I recently remembered one time we went to Walpole, we printed out a magnet for Vistaprint and put it on the side of our Explorer. We got pulled over by the state police because we had commercial plates and he said that we needed to take that off the commercial plates or we would end up in Walpole State Prison. We still laughed about this recently. That’s what I did with magnets. I remember me and my wife before GPS, we used to print out MapQuest directions on the way to jobs, and I would yell at her if she gave me the wrong directions while trying to read the map and it was crazy. We even put advertisements in the mailboxes until I got a letter from the authorities that it was a federal offense. It is a federal crime to touch somebody’s mail.

Back then my biggest goal was to make $250 a day because that’s pretty much what I was making at the company. I thought that If I could do that, I could survive. So I had to make phone calls, send emails, create websites and just try to get my name out there as much as possible. I still believed that I had to treat every customer like it was my first. So, I was not going to take advantage of anyone. I was staying humble. They want me to show up, I show up. So, with the company I started and the two other ones I’ve purchased, there’s three very important lessons I learned. The first one is to always clean up better than when you arrived so it’s like you were never even there. People remember that more than anything in the world. That’s the rule I always had for J P Electric. When I moved into that company, the owner told me to just answer the phone. He said I didn’t have to do anything else. The company is 50 years old and all I had to do was answer the phone. Thirdly, when I purchased Patriot, the number one thing that they said to me was to show up when you say you’re going to. So if you say you are going to be there at 9am, be there at 9am. If you’re not going to be there at 9 a.m., just give the clients a call, let them know you’ll be late, but don’t not show up and don’t show up late. So clean up after you finish work, answer the phone and show up on time. If you do those three things, you’ll be fine.

I remember I was competing with a friend of mine and all of a sudden, one week he made like $10,000 and I was so jealous because I didn;’t think I could do that. Then, after a couple of months, he kind of went under and then I ended up hiring him. I can always make the distinction between friends and employees, but it seems like my friends can never do it. So one day he left, even though it didn’t make sense. So at one point we got to $250 a day. We make a lot more than that now, of course but $250 a day, 15 years ago, was a lot of money but it wasn’t a huge amount that I would have to kill for. It was the same amount that I was making during the day for the other companies. I thought that as long as I could do that by 10 a.m, I was good but most people gave up. They want to go fishing, go watch TV or something afterwards. Meanwhile, I thought that if I was done by 10:00 a.m, it was perfect because I got the rest of the day to make more. So, I would just make more phone calls.As I said earlier, if you show up and just do what you say you’re going to do and take care of the customer, the word spreads faster than from any marketing or any advertising or anything that you can even put on the internet. Being a good person gets you referral. It was really hard to jump into commercials at that time. So, I was doing everything for homeowners and emergency calls and jobs even at 2:00 in the morning. You just have to move. I did have a big break, which was through an IT company that hired us at the time. Burger King was installing all the digital menu boards. So at 11:00 at night, I would go into a working store, one outlet in the IT, and the two outlets behind the menu boards and so that we did that from like 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Then I’d go home, sleep a little bit, and then I’d go back to doing my regular job throughout the day. That was a big plus. It also contributed to the company’s growth. – Joshua Page

So today we have 13 employees, including myself. We got up to 18 and then came back down. COVID screwed a lot of things up for a lot of companies, but we’re at 13 right now.

No, I’m stupid, I’m not a college graduate. I’m just a trades kid that just wanted to be a good dad and provide for my family.

It feels great. There’s a whole new level of pressure and stress because I know that if I don’t produce, they can’t produce. So it’s not just about me anymore. It’s about feeding them and their families and making sure that they’re taken care of before I’m ever taken care of. So the company is out in a space now where I don’t have to come into work every single day if I chose not to, but I feel like I’m letting them down if I don’t do that, so it’s tough.

I think so. If you are risk tolerant, that is a huge risk. At that time I purchased a company more than I ever bought a house for. So that was a huge risk. It was a weird conversation because I never thought of buying, I didn’t even think of that concept, to be honest. There was a representative from a supply house who called and said the owners are going to sell and suggested I should probably get in touch with them. I never I never thought of that or anything. He said the owners were going to retire and he wants to sell. So I gave the owner a call and he said that they were not selling it to me but to a contractor on Friday and they wanted nothing to do with you. I didn’t know him personally, so I accepted his answer. Then, I thought about it over the weekend, and I’m not usually one to push into the university too much, but then on Monday I decided I was going to reach out to him again, and be gentle. So I called him and he said the contractor thing didn’t work out and I offered to sit down and talk. So, we sat down at a Dunkin Donuts, we talked for 3 hours, and then two, three months later, we were the new owner. So it just seemed to work out, one thing after another but I don’t think I would have purchased that if I didn’t bent the universe on that day.

It’s different because it’s not “work” because I don’t put the tools on. I still wear the boots, but it’s not what I ever thought it was going to be. I deal with customer service a lot, I’m doing all the estimates, I’m sending emails to the customers, but I have a staff now that orders material, pulls the permits, the schedules of jobs, which is phenomenal. That gives me the opportunity to do what I do best. I learned a long time ago to delegate. For me, delegating was what continued my success because if you can’t trust and give people small jobs, you’re never going to grow because you just can’t do everything. I think a lot of people get stuck in that because they don’t know how to delegate or they don’t trust people or think that nobody can do it as well as them and that’s not accurate. So I coach a lot. I teach my apprentices that we’re going to do something one way but if it doesn’t work, then we’ll try it a different way. It’s not always about Josh’s way, It’s what works best and let’s move forward from there. So for my electricians in the field, I gave them five things that they always have to think about and this stopped almost 99% of the phone calls back to me and gave them reassurance that what they’re doing is correct. Number one: Is it down to code? Number two: Is the customer happy? Number three: Did you do the best job that you can do? Number four: Is it within budget? So, if we only have $1,000 worth of material but you want to buy $5,000 worth of material, it’s a no. So you have to figure out a way because you have $1,000. I think is number five, most important: Can you take a sharpie, sign your name to it, bring your family and parade them in front of it and show them how good of a job you did? If you can’t do that, if you can’t stick to a budget, if you can’t sharpen up your name, if you didn’t do the best job you could do, if the customer’s not happy, go back and do it again. As long as all my electricians in the field keep them top of mind, there’s never any questions. They have to answer these questions and then figure it out. I’ve always told them to not come to me with problems, It’s laziness. They need to figure out solutions. They need to come to me with three different solutions and then we’ll talk about it. We’ll figure out the best solutions. If you come to me with a problem, that means that you did not try to figure that out on your own at all. As a human being, you need to problem-solve. All of us need that. So, they have to come up with solutions, then come to me and it works. – Joshua Page

Life looks pretty good. I wake up early at about 4:35 a.m. I built a home gym, so I work out every single morning for an hour, hour and a half. I stretch, meditate, and workout. I whiteboard, I write up all my goals every single day. I take a picture of them and then I raise them. I was just something that I started back in 2018. Then I eat breakfast. On Mondays and Tuesdays I bring my youngest to school and pick them up from school on Wednesdays . My oldest takes the bus. I’ve coached my oldest for soccer for the last eight years. He is a freshman, so I’ve given up the reins and let high school take him over. My youngest wants to play soccer now, so I’ll coach him. I’ve been my youngest baseball coach the last four or five years but he doesn’t want to do basketball this season. Work for the most part is me going into the office making sure everything’s good. Then I go out and do estimates and then come back to the office to do the estimates. Sometimes, I do the estimates on the field and sometimes at home but the biggest thing for me is that I never wanted to bring work home. So, four or five years ago I made the decision that I didn’t want to take business calls at home because then my kids are always growing up watching dad talk about business on the phone. Some people might disagree because they think that it’s good to see a hard working dad answering phones and the kids to listen to the conversations. To me, that’s absent and I don’t want to be absent. I want to be intentional with my kids. So even if we are literally sitting there watching TV or I’m watching a movie or eating dinner, I don’t want to be the person who’s constantly answering the phone to talk about where a specific wire is. At this point, I love what I do but I don’t care when I’m with my family because we kind of get lost in this entrepreneur lifestyle and feel we need to be all 100% about the business and everything else kind of just falls away and it’s not true. Your business, whatever it is, needs to be a strong foundation to hold everything else up. If you think about a pyramid for me, I’m a husband, I’m a father, and then I’m an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is my business, but it’s the foundation of what holds everything else up and not the other way around, that’s important to emphasize. A lot of us entrepreneurs, we have it the other way around where we put the business as number one, and we’ve got to answer every phone call or every email and say to kids that we can’t go to their plays because we’ve got to go to the shops. Little Susie is going to remember for the rest of her life that you missed her play or ballet or ballet recital, whatever it is, because you needed to go to the job site to tell your electrician or plumber or roofer on how to do something. She’s going to remember that, but she’s also going to be the same one that’s going to be at that ballet recital looking for mom and dad whether you’re divorced or together, it doesn’t matter. She’s going to be looking at that. I don’t want my kids looking for that smile. I lost that smile. My mom was that smile in the stands and I was the kid looking for that smile. I lost that smile when mom died andI don’t want my kids looking for that smile. I want to be there at every single game, every single practice, whether I’m involved or not. If they stop what they’re doing and look, even if they don’t make eye contact with me or my wife, we’ll be there and they know that we’ll be there and they know that they can look and see a smile and feel safe. My son is 14 years old now and could probably care less if I’m there but on the inside. I know he can see me and my wife watching him play sports. I don’t want my kids searching for that smile.

Live a life of purpose and try to not live in your past. Try to continue living in the future and setting goals. When you get to those goals, you cross them off, you set new goals and you just keep moving forward because what’s happened in your past, it’s in the past. We all make mistakes and the best thing to do is just really, truly learn from them, rip them apart, digest them, figure out what worked, what didn’t work, and then not do it again. – Joshua Page