Next Page | Contents | Previous Page
In fact, an American hero pulled himself out of such an impossible stagnation-trap, I remembered. Yes, it can be done; it has been done. A great American hero did just that. I remembered reading about him as a teenager. He was a laborer at the turn of the century, a dock worker among the roughest ports of early nineteen-hundred America. That dock breed spoke illiterate English, crude, unrefined. This American hero dropped out of school early. He lived on the streets. He survived. He never had an opportunity. Like millions of others, he was headed for a dead-end life. A desire burned inside, though. He desired to pull himself out of the abyss. He desired to become a successful writer. In the early 1900s, an illiterate dock worker had essentially no chance to ever sell a piece of literature. But that man became the highest paid author in history! And if we adjust for inflation today, he is the highest paid author of all time. That man was Jack London. He wrote many adventure stories and best-selling novels including Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, Martin Eden.
Exactly how did Jack London do it? He established four physical movements, four mini-days that would achieve his desire of becoming a writer: (1) reading, (2) intense grammar study, (3) self-education (a library-study program), and (4) writing. Those four mini-days were divided before and after his 10-hour income mini-day. Even after he pulled himself out of his trap and off the docks, he never stopped the mini-day system. He stayed on the mini-day system through all his fame and glory to the last days of his short life.
So, there were two ways for the physical laborer to succeed, I realized. One way involved eventually leaving his place of work, the other did not involve leaving his place of work. I knew that the bricklayer, the cook, the bank teller, the drafting artist could actually rise and eventually rise to the top of the company he or she now worked for. Anyone could do that by first defining the potential wealth-building jobs within his place of work and then mastering the details and absorbing the responsibilities to steadily take over one of those wealth-building jobs.
Either decision -- to pull himself up outside his job or within his job -- he would work toward taking over wealth-building purpose...the DNA of a job. Once that occurred, then he could establish mini-days for manufacturing money and success.
I next shifted my thoughts to another powerful 21st-century tool I had seen in my Fourth Vision: power-thinking, made possible because of the mini-day schedule. With power-thinking, I suddenly compiled FUTURE projects into today's powerful mini-days. In other words, I compiled future money into today's paychecks. First of all, after I had been on the mini-day schedule for a couple weeks, suddenly I found myself all done with all my work by Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning. In a state of shock, I knew I had to create more work -- create money-making projects to fill my week! Suddenly, I was forced to think creatively. I had to figure out and pursue new money-making projects that never existed before. I had to rise to the next level of integrated thinking -- power-thinking. Now with power-thinking, my very existence was changing into some dynamo I once fantasized about.
Next Page | Contents | Previous Page
Disclaimer - Copyright - Contact
Online: buildfreedom.org - terrorcrat.com - mind-trek.com