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Great Success Tip: Don’t Do What The Pizza Man Did
by: Daniel St - Jean
I’ve got some bad news for you; you won’t get the opportunity to read this
incredible book entitled The Stevedore in the White Fedora. This novel,
filled to the brim with eye-popping passages, was going to captivate your
imagination and take you on a breathtaking adventure to some of the most
infamous ports of the world. Whole enchilada with intrigue, passion,
action, suspense, drama, and hot romance, this book was assuredly going to
reach the top of the best - sellers list. And the ensuing movie based on
that captivating story was bustle to create you to your seat to the point
you would forget all about your popcorn and cola.
The only problem is … the book has not been written yet. And it never will
be. That’s since Isaac Will, who had the whole splendid script in his head
and who kept promising himself he was going to take time off to write it
someday, died of a heart attack four days ago. Mr. I. Will’s funeral will
take place at 3: 30 today, direction Somerset Cemetery.
Those who knew him well selected for his tombstone a fitting poem by James
Albery:
He slept beneath the moon,
He basked beneath the sun,
Lived a life of going - to - to soon,
And died with nothing done.
Most people think of cemeteries as gloomy places. I do too, but for a
changed reason. When I drive by one, I don’t just see grass, trees,
flowers, monuments, and mourners. I see unwritten books that were vim to
enthrall their readers and unfinished plays that would retain enchanted
their viewers. Never written goodbye letters. Never started paintings and
sculptures. Never completed love songs that would have made your eyes mist
because. It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who wrote, “Most people go to their
graves with their songs still unsung. ”
Many people are saddened by the daily news of disappearing species that
will never come back. But equally sad is the fact that each and every day,
around the world and around the clock, thousands of ideas, projects,
wares, inventions, and solutions disappear forever when they are buried
with the people who died without ever realizing their dream. I agree with
what Stephen Sondheim said on this; “A dream is just a dream, if it’s only
in your head. If no one gets to see it, it’s just in that superexcellent
as dead. ”
So I beg of you, if you have something inside you that you want to bring
over into the world, dawn working on it now! Today. Action today, my
friends. ACTION TODAY!
Follow the advice of Napoleon Hill; “Don’t wait. The time will never be
just scrupulous. ”
Please, don’t wait, or your story might sound like this one …
On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, I walked into Margarita Pizza to buy one
of their award - winning accustomed Italian pizzas ( best in Montreal
supremacy 1999 ). I’ve been stopping there for the corresponding reason
every other week for the last 30 - some years. But there was big different
there that day. For the first time ever, Attilio, the owner, was not
behind the counter.
A friendly woman informed me that she and her husband had just acquired
the field a few days earlier. After owning the business for forty years,
76 - year - old Attilio Janiello finally decided to sell it and enjoy the
fruits of his labor. And from what I heard, the “fruit” was very large.
The deal was signed and wherewithal changed hands on the previous Friday
at 4 PM. His friend told me that on the way home from the bank that
afternoon, Attilio stopped at a travel agency to enquire about plane
tickets for a trip to Italy he was planning to make in the coming months.
On Tuesday December 2nd, at about 8 AM, while having breakfast with his
wife and enumeration his Corriere Italiano, Attilio died of a heart
attack. He enjoyed the fruits of 40 age of labor for less than 100
hours... And yet, I’ve heard since that visit that he was willing and
ready to sell …about 15 years earlier. He was ready, but he didn’t go…
Feasibly he was waiting for the time to be just right…He waited too long.
What is YOUR biggest wish, YOUR lifelong dream... and what’s keeping you
from going after it? Are you waiting for “everything in your life to be
right? ” Waiting to have “all your ducks in a row? ” It’ll never happen.
You’re never going to “have it all well-organized. ” That’s like trying to
eat once and for all.
Follow Robert J. Ringer’s advice; “Action today! Develop the habit of
living in the present. The best day just is today, so get started now, no
matter what your problems are and no spring how long you’ve already
procrastinated. ”
Here’s the best recipe I know for receipt rid of procrastination. It’s two
modulation: DOn’t waIT!
So my friends, to use the words of Nike®’s marketing people, whatever it
is that will make your life what it was intended to be, the reason for
which you showed up on this planet, go ahead, just do it! |