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Norman Vincent Peale has gotten a bum rap for "The Power Of Positive Thinking." The people, including many modern "self-help gurus," who assert that "positive thinking" isn't enough clearly read the book JACKET, not the BOOK.
Peale was a strong advocate for positive thinking backed up by positive ACTION. He was the first to admit that if you don't have BOTH, you have NOTHING.
So I was talking with my attorney the other day...my best friend, a fellow Italian, a fellow Christian.
And he told me "Mike, you have to be out there looking for the JOY."
He went on to say...rightly so...that my joy comes from receiving money from clients I HELP, that I am of service to, that I make more successful.
In Norman Vincent Peale's book "You Can If You Think You Can," he references legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, who once told his players:
"This is a game of abandon. You run with complete abandon. You care nothing for anybody or anything, and when you are close to the goal line your abandon is intensified. Nothing, not a tank, nor a wall, no eleven shall stop you from getting across that goal line."
I've come to the realization that success in my busines is built on the quest for joy, WITH ABANDON.
So my question is this.
Do you have a goal line?
Are you committed to cross it?
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