From Failure To Success

From Failure To Success

“Not every successful person started out that way.

Many were failures before they turned their lives around.

Energizing themselves by being dissatisfied has turned

more unsuccessful people into tremendous successes.

One such person was a man named Og Mandino. Og

had hit rock bottom and came very close to taking his own

life.

As a youngster, Og’s mother would tell him, “Some day

you will be a writer…not just a writer but a great writer!”

Og’s mother died before he graduated high school and

he felt devastated for years. During World War II, he flew

thirty bombardier missions over Germany. After the war

ended, he got married, had a child, sold life insurance, and

slowly drank himself into alcoholism.

It took ten years before he ruined his marriage, forcing

his wife and daughter to leave him, and for him to completely

bottom out. With his last ten dollars, he contemplated buying

the gun he saw in a pawnshop window. Something stopped

him from carrying out the suicide he envisioned. Instead,

he wound up in a library that day and tried to find an answer

for his life in self-help books, and one in particular: Success

Through A Positive Mental Attitude.

Og found something that changed his life in those books.

He went on to head the magazine “Success Unlimited” and

wrote the world renowned book, The Greatest Salesman

In The World. He sold over 25 million copies of his many

inspirational titles, which became his way of helping

millions of people improve their lives.

Og was clearly inspired to action. Positive Visualization?

You bet! The magic of believing is powerful when accepted

by the subconscious mind.”

“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

shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to

walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear

not those who weep and complain, for their

disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep.

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

I will persist until I succeed.”

--Og Mandino

C-2005 John Paul Carinci