Hi Dien!

It's been a while! : ) Hope life is being good to you.

Like you, I too read the tidbit about the bricklayers. Was that at Joe Vitale's site? I don't recall... nevertheless, it does not matter where.

I also read Max's letter, below. I laughed. Really laughed. He makes some good points.

For, when that "person" is "building the world's most beautiful cathedral" yes - they may truly have a vision. Then again, they may also have illusions of grandiosity. And who is to know?

You see, I have a little sister that talks just that way. On any given day of the week, she might be writing the next runaway best seller. Or she may be designing the newest Martha Stewart decorating trend. But, fact of the matter is that she has done none of that. The bestseller is a paragraph, at most, scratched on a piece of notepaper - and abandoned. Likewise with the interior fashions. Dreams to fill her day with while her husband "brings home the bacon." (Michael's kind of girl *wink*)

Yes, it's true that attitude is important. More pointedly, it helps not to be pessimistic about everything. It helps not to be dour and miserable and find the bad in everything instead of the good.

But, even more so... the mark of the person who will succeed? Persistance. Tenacity. The stubborn insistance on hanging on, pushing forward and refusing to give up!

The late Irving Stone wrote biographies of men such as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found a thread that runs through the lives of exceptional people. He said;

"They are beaten over the head, knocked down, vilified, and for years they get nowhere. But every time they're knocked down they stand up. You cannot destroy these people...."

Take, for example, the person whose website sucks. Doesn't make any sales. Do they quit? Walk away? Many do. Then there is the person that will change it, and change it again, and persist. And learn. And grow. And hang in there with sheer stubborn persistance. And work a second job if they have to, and stay up at night to promote the site. And THAT, my friend, is the person who is going to sit back and reap the rewards down the road. Persistance. Tenacity!

Here, on the Internet, people are searching for that key to fame. To wealth and financial reward. They study others that are succeeding, trying to find a common denominator. The key to success, if you will.

Eventually it dawns on us. Words are power. The man (woman) who has a gift with words has power. Power to affect your thoughts & your responses.

To those reading all the articles out there, be cautious of the power of words. They can as easily sway you the wrong way as they can point you in the right direction.

So yes... have a good attitude. If for no other reason that this; you get what you give. But above all, believe in yourself - hang in there. Be persistant and tenacious, not in ignorance, but in a search for knowledge. Be like the willow tree - bend with the wind when you need to, but keep your roots firmly planted in that which you know and believe. In the end, persistance is what will keep one foot in front of the other until you reach the place of your dreams.

As always, just my two cents.

Linda


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