WHAT KILLED THEM?

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Nelson Mandela

 

Death was walking towards a city one morning someone asked, "What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to take 100 people," Death replied.

"That's horrible!" the man said.

"That's the way it is. That's what I do." Death replied.

So the man hurriedly warned everyone he could about Death's plan. As evening fell, he met Death again. "You told me you were going to take 100 people," the man said. "Why did 1,000 die?"

"I kept my word," Death responded. "I only took 100 people. Fear killed the others."

THE GIFT OF A DAY (16): FACE IT TODAY

Face Your Fear

"You may have a million reasons not to get started now. But deep down, none of them can be as compelling as your desire to change, grow, and succeed. In a month or a year or five years from now, you may have only one regret - that you didn’t start now. Today matters. The way you spend today really can change your life." - J.C Maxwell

He has always thought of a better life; though he had a job, somehow, he knew that he couldn't just get all he needed in life from only a paid job. As a child he dreaded any form of business because he grew up in the streets. In an environment where he had to do business (hawk wares) to survive and he didn't quite enjoy it. Now he's an adult, but his childhood demons (about business) were still haunting him. He knows he'd run too long, he had to face his demons now if he ever wants to get her all he desires to get her; a fantastic life. He loves her so much; she is the one for him, he's so certain about it, he could perceive it in his gut! He kept looking out for business opportunities but each time he got one, the fear of failure and inadequacy gripped him so hard that he shrieks and most of the time he let's it slip past him. Now, he has a gut feeling, that this next one was going to be "it" for him. It isn't quite new, but he'd mentally brushed it off years before. Now that he decided to face his demons, the opportunity re-surfaced almost miraculously and he has to make up his mind as the days go by, drawing him closer to the signing, and registration for this business. Somehow, in his gut he knew - could almost feel the success in this one - but his demons are staring wide eyed, grinning like they always have expecting him to back out. He was used to that.