21 Grams - 9.25.06 - Success

During my time with AXA, they tried their fair share of brain washing techniques. Obviously they didn't work as I'm no longer there, but one of the things they gave me was a small pamphelt entitled, "The Common Denominator of Success." While heavy on the brainwashing, it did carry one fundamental message that I feel, at this point in my life, I need to take to heart.

"...But this common denominator of success is so big, so powerful, and so vitally important to your future and mine that I'm not going to make a speech about it. I'm just going to "lay it on the line" in words of one syllable, so simple that everyone can understand them.

The common denominator of success -- the secret of success of every man who has ever been successful -- lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do."

So true. I remember reading it the first time and thinking, "that used to be me." And as I read it for a second time, I think once more, "that used to me."

Now its time for me to say, "That's me."