My Journey Through
The Greatest Salesman in the World
By Og Mandino
I will persist until I succeed.
I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my Shepard. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the Sheep.
The Slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
I will persist until I succeed.
I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my Shepard. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the Sheep.
The Slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
I will persist until I succeed.
Goal and Motivation
I have worked through this book before on several occasions. I have seen some success on my behaviors and attitudes on life but in truth I never had a fire for what I was trying to achieve until now.
In the first chapters of the book the motivation for Hafid to become a merchant from a camel boy was weeded out. For pure riches alone was not enough to teach him the ways of the scrolls. In the past my clients who wanted to loose weight, if they came to me for health reasons, oddly enough, never seen much success unless they were deeply emotionally driven by that. In truth it was the clients that wanted to get into a dress for a wedding or a bathing suit for a holiday that made their marks on the scale. Personal reason is what brings a fire to our bellies and stirs us to take action on our dreams.
For me motivation is a few things.
I am 42 years old and I have nothing built in my life and nothing saved for my future days. I have no legacy to leave my children and I have nothing to go to the grave extremely proud about. Don't get me wrong I have lived a decent life, I am a good person and I have three amazing children. Those are all great things. However there is still forty good years left in me and in those years I want to create my personal best. I want to leave a legacy to my children. I want them to have options in this life.
But.... My motivations are so much more then even that.....
Other then leaving something great for my children, I want to teach them that nothing is to big to achieve. Nothing is larger then themselves. I want to create an empire that provides jobs and a quality of life for people that would otherwise not had. I want to make a million dollars creating Landscapes that are functional in our declining economy and deteriorating earth. I want to create financial freedom for myself and my entire family. I want to invest into an industry that will provide residual income well into my Golden years and I want to in the end take part of the profits and build a healing center for the elderly. I want to do this because I came from a very poor upbringing where no one in my family moved up in their stations in life. I want to become somebody, I want to be seen and I want my worth to be noticeable on all levels of success. i want this because I grew up with my worth being compromised at every turn as a child and then by my own hand as an adult. Success to me will be proof that I have mastered my levels of self worth.
I want to be self sufficient and respected and I want to attract to me the one I desire. I know him well and he will never be willing to financially take care of another woman again after what his ex wife did to him. So I want to make more money then him so that I can stand on my own beside him proud of who I am and open to healing his deep hurts. He is a wealthy man, that means blood sweat and tears must go into who I am to create a position next to him in this life time.
So there you have it. My motivations have been weeded and brought to the table as an offering to the internet gods for their support and acceptance of the Journey I am about to embark upon. Shall you choose to join me on this journey what be your motivations to create the dreams you have burning in your belly? Where are you going and Why are you going there? Who or what fuels that fire and do you have a sufficiently stacked pile of that fuel to carry you through the long journey? Are you willing to sacrifice your old skins to grow into new ones? Are you ready to do the work?
What are you willing to give back in order to receive you dreams?