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At age 14, or 20, you had instant answers to: "Someday I will definitely _____________."
Whatever your circumstances then, you were 100% certain that by 25, or 30, you'd be __________.
Go ahead; have a little fun; provide a
quick pleasure. Fill in the blanks! Yes, now.
Unless you are a genuine vegetable, in
which case you wouldn't even have gotten this far, there are things
you would still like to do, be, and have in this life. If I offer you ten
thousand dollars cash for every item you can list, how many things can you
list that you would still like to be able to do before you die?
Go
ahead, give it a shot: ________________________________
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How about when you were
17? Unless you've dulled your mind with lack of effort, are you capable of
recreating, in your mind's eye --- right now -- the beliefs you
held when you were 15 - 20 yrs old about where you'd be at age 30, 40,
etc? Can you do it right now, as you read this?
If you couldn't be
bothered doing this, please go bang your head against the wall
several times
Fill in the margins, too. Write down several
things that you were sure of 5, or 10, or even 20 years back if you can
remember that far with at least a little bit of clarity (If not, then you
must be senile, so toss in your chips, and this page, too).
Now,
please identify for me the precise day that you woke up and decided to
live a day that was virtually identical to the day before. Get up, punch a
clock, go to work, have a drink. go home,....
Was yesterday pretty
much the same as the day before? What about today? Got anything special
planned for this evening? Are you trying to tell me that you did at least
ONE MEASLY THING towards achieving anything that you want? Yeah,
right.
How many languages do you speak? When was the last time you
looked at your mate & saw something to be grateful for? (and commented
on). Do you have at least ten to twenty grand socked away? Ever wanted to
learn how to play guitar or piano, but just "haven't had the time? To nail
bullseyes w/ bow & arrow, or darts? If you haven't either told or
shown your kids recently that you love them, you'll understand how much
you'll have contributed to them becoming losers: people who stop trying
for a happy & rewarding life at some weird, unexplained date in
time... usually in their 20', or early 30's, when they really don't
believe in themselves...deep down... and so they stop trying... y'know,
kinda like.... you?
Short and sweet: whenever we want something,
whether it's a date with that verrrry nice-looking person over there, to
learning new material for work, school, or what-have you, we find more
ways to do it, have it, get it,... and if we can't find ways to do
it... we create them.
Now I realize, and do understand, that most of
the people who read this... ESPECIALLY you college graduates... are
waaaaaay too stupid to actually change. You're so educated that you think
you know what to do. If so, you'd be doing it. I know, I know: you've all
got excellent "reasons" for just why it is you're not at the point
in life you believed you'd be just 5, 10, or perhaps 20 years ago.
I'm not saying you have to go out and be a Leonardo da
Vinci, a George Washington Carver, a Thomas Edison, or a Thomas Jefferson,
in terms of accomplishments in so many different disciplines, as each of
these men did...
but you can bet your bottom dollar that the single
largest commonality observed in every single one of
more than five thousand successful people was that each and every one of them failed... hundreds and thousands of
times more than you and your whole family put together!!
Because they TRIED more.
I'm not much on spectator sports,
& I don't know if you are, but I'm asking you to consider the
following:
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-- Far more than any
other baseball player, Babe Ruth suffered the greatest number of
strikeouts. And the second-worst strikeout king? Hank Aaron.
2)What most people remember about Fran Tarkenton is that he
successfully completed more passes than any other NFL quarterback in
history. Do you think there's some connection w/ the fact that he
also had more of his passes intercepted than any other NFL qb?
-- Ricky Henderson stole more bases than any other man in
baseball history.... and yes, he was tagged out more times than any other.
Are you catching on yet?
Do you think it a coincidence that Wilma
Rudolph, a childhood victim of polio, went on to
become the fastest
lady in American history who broke THREE world records when she won three
gold medals in the Olympics...? (Her records stand
unbroken).
-- The greatest hitter in baseball was a man named
Ty Cobb. His lifetime baseball average, over a period of many years, was
an astonishing .367! No one has come close in the past 30-40 years.
Here we have Ty Cobb, a professional, the best who ever lived. The fact
that he had the highest average in history does not, change the fact that
as good as even Ty Cobb was, he failed two times out of every three
tries!!
If I offer you ten thousand dollars cash for every item
you can list, how many things can you list that you would still like to be
able to do before you die?
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If you DID have the brains to
fill in those blanks, I have got some very exciting information for
you:
- Without exception, the
human brain and system ALWAYS and without fail, moves towards its most
dominant current thought.
If you understand that statement, and
CREATE a new set of dominant thoughts, watch what happens.
- If you can write down on paper exactly what it is you want,
- establish a date by which you intend to achieve it
- list all of the obstacles you can expect to encounter
- list the skills/info you'll need to develop OR sharpen
- list the people/organizations/agencies that can help you achieve it
- list the STEP-BY-STEP PLAN OF ACTION
- WHY you want it
and then take daily steps toward it, you will
find, within the next 25 days, that numerous areas of your life are
improving at a l i t e r a l l y astonishing rate...
If you think I'm pulling your leg, don't take MY
word for it: Shut up and DO IT !!!!
Results... measurable, impressive
results... are unconditionally guaranteed to
occur.
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In the third week of April,
1991, I was told by Dr. Greg Loomis, Albany Medical Center superstar
neurosurgeon, that the bulging & herniated discs, acute chronic
cervical arthritis, extensive nerve damage, cervical AND lumbrosacral
radiculopathy, & other mechanical damages sustained in a 100+ MPH
collision, would leave me in a wheelchair for life: no surgery, no
therapy, no pharmaceutical protocols would ever change this inevitable
outcome. His opinion was supported by 4 other orthopedic/neurological
specialists. To boot, I was "marked" as a loser by my own family who
pretty well disowned me, voicing their certitude that I would never amount
to anything... ever.
I made a decision {from the Latin root that
means "to cut off" (from any other possibility)} to study
everything I could on how to go from "Loser" to "Winner," & how to
defeat massive medical challenges.
Between 4/91 & 12/94, I read
more than 1700 books on these subjects & was blessed by the
gifts of Monsignor Bernard Kellogg, rest in peace, who saw more in me than
my own flesh and blood did.
He invested thousands of dollars,
purchasing for me tape cassettes, videos, laser discs, books, &
more.
I studied these subjects 10-16 hrs pr day. I sought
commonalities, & began PUTTING THEM TO USE.
I came home to
LI with a box of sweatsuits, nine boxes of the most advanced research in
cybernetic functions of the human brain/body, psychoneuroimmunology, peak
performance by 5200 of the most successful human beings of the past 300
years; & case histories of 1500 "golden losers," people who had turned
horrid challenges into successful lives. Many of them are people whose
names you will recognize. I also had $180 in cash. Have I changed the
worldsince then? Of course not; yet, when I wake up each day, I AM excited
about today.
I've obtained an executive position, I have a
$15,000 wardrobe, two cars, two motorcycles; a variety of advanced
electronic "toys," such as the computer I'm producing this on; hundreds of
CD's; thousands of dollars in the bank; I've paid off 8 grand in debts,
& still manage to carry a couple of thousand in pocket.
Best of
all, I get to invest time and other resources into working with some s e r
i o u s l y disadvantaged people, & what a payoff that
is!
You'd be seriously mistaken if you think that these past few
paragraphs are designed to impress you. Not by a long shot:
I am hoping to impress UPON you a very basic set of
axioms:
If you are capable of determining:
- precisely what it is you want,
- setting a deadline for its achievement
- enumerating the expected obstacles
- the people who can help you
- the skills/info you'll need
- a step-by-step plan of action, and
- a clear reason for doing it (WHY? Precisely how will I
benefit?),
you'll see that you have taken the
beginning steps that have been consciously or not-so-consciously taken by
each and every successful human being of those 5200 I studied.
Please believe me: knowing this information is not
enough.
Contrary to popular belief, knowledge
is NOT power:it is only potential power. It becomes power only when
we take ACTION upon that knowledge.
The Latins
& Greeks knew what they were doing when they created our
language. For example, look at the word SATISFACTION. "SATISFACTION" is a feeling, right?
If you want satisfaction in life, we first have to look at
the last six letters of the word satisfaction.Look carefully.
Now, look at the "fac" in the middle.It comes from the Latin root
(facere) meaning "to create," as in "manufacture." Next, look at
the first five letters of "satisfaction:"
"Satis" (pronounced saTEESE) means "adequate" or "sufficient."
Put
them all together, and you 'll understand that when you create sufficient action, you get a feeling.
That feeling is what we call "satisfaction."
At age 32,
twice-bankrupted, undesirably discharged from the US Navy, and dead broke,
Walter walked into a bank w/ a hand puppet named "Steamboat Willie," &
in the falsetto voice of his puppet tried to get a loan to promote his
puppet. Needless to say, they laughed him out of the bank. So did the next
bank... and the next. Can you imagine the chutzpah of someone taking a
hand puppet to TWENTY-FIVE different banks, trying to get a loan?
Preposterous! Most of us would have given up after 5 or 6 or 7, or maybe
even just one or two tries. Every one of the 25 banks turned him
down.
Did he quit? Not a chance. You see, he understood that
persistence overcomes every single obstacle known to Mankind: no
exceptions to this rule. That's why he went to 30 banks, & then
40.
A total of, are you ready for this?..... EIGHTY-FOUR BANKS
TURNED HIM DOWN!
When he had nothing but himself & a dream to
believe in, he was more successful than most of the financially wealthy
people I know... because he never ever ever stopped
trying.
Bank # 85 lent him $1500... and he changed Steamboat Willie's
name, a name I'm sure you will recognize: Mickey Mouse. What a wonderful
role model Walt Disney is for me.
Talk is cheap. Keep banging the
clock, making it to Friday, so that you can piss away the weekend in order
to bang again next week so that you can make it to the weekend, for the
purpose of recharging your batteries & going out the following week to
bang ou.... get the
hint?
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