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Week 3 – The Dawn of a New Day

When this whole process started, like a lot of people, I was a little skeptical about the program to say the least. Now understand that approximately 12 years ago, I first picked up Napolean Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” and Og’s “The Greatest Salesman in the World” but apparently the student was not ready for the teacher. I read them both cover to cover. I completed them in a little over a week and for me, that was a pretty bid feat.

Numerous times over the last 12 years, I would pick up Mandino’s work and attempt to start the scrolls but it always ended the same. I’d read for a few days and then life would get in the way and I would taper off until I just stopped reading them entirely. So when I started this time, I thought long and hard before committing to the process. I made up my mind that I would keep my promises to myself and start fresh with a new internal attitude and picture of the person I wanted, the person I needed to be.

I won’t say it’s been easy, cause it hasn’t. With all of the obligations I committed to over the last 2 months and the sudden down turn of my business, there have been plenty of opportunities for me to fall back into the same patterns of doubt and self-pity. It has been extremely difficult and even though someone told me there would be school shock, no one told me there would be school shock on top of trying to rescue a business that was in financial ICU AND if that wasn’t enough, I was in the middle of an epic battle with God over why he was punishing me when there were other “Christians” not living a Christian life but were having success in their businesses.

Before I really knew what was happening, the battle began to settle down and the clouds began to clear. The business was downgraded from critical to stable and ideas began to flow. Now 3 weeks in to the MKMMA experience and a new day is dawning. Things are starting to happen and not only are things getting better, they are showing signs of a dramatic turn around. I can’t yet say it is all due to the MKMMA but it has certainly forced a quantum leap forward from where I thought or expected to be. I am extremely excited to see where things go from here.

Until next time…