Million Dollar Habits – Page 12 The challenge is that you come into the world with the most incredible brain,
surrounded by unlimited possibilities for success, happiness and achievement, but
you start off with
no instruction manual . As a result, you have to figure it all out
for yourself. Most people never do. They go through life doing the very best they
can, but they never come within shouting distance of doing, having and being all
that is possible for them.
Coming From Behind I started off in life with few advantages. My father was not always employed and
my family never seemed to have any money. I began working and paying for my
own clothes and expenses when I was 10 years old, doing odd jobs around the
neighborhood. I hoed weeds, delivered newspapers, mowed lawns, and raked
leaves. When I was old enough, I got a job washing dishes in the back of a small
hotel. My biggest promotion at that time was up to washing pots and pans.
I left high school without graduating and worked at laboring jobs for several years.
I worked in sawmills stacking lumber, and in the woods slashing brush with a
chain saw. I dug ditches and wells. I worked on farms and ranches. I worked in
factories and on construction sites. For a time, I was a galley boy on a Norwegian
Freighter in the North Atlantic. I earned my living by the sweat of my brow.
When I could no longer find a laboring job, I got a job in straight commission
sales, cold calling from door-to-door and office-to-office. For a long time, I was
one sale away from homelessness. If I did not make a sale that day, and get my
Million Dollar Habits – Page 13 commission immediately so that I could pay for my room at the boarding house, I
would be out on the street. This was not a great way to live.
