"Finally, I got down to another success quality one hears a lot about. Initiative. Here I hated to admit it, but I had to. On this point my record showed I was far below that of my successful friends.

"It was about 3:00A.M., but my mind was astonishingly clear. I was seeing my weak point for the first time. I discovered that I had held back. I had always carried a little stick. I dug into myself deeper and deeper and found the reason I lacked initiative was because I didn't believe inside that I was worth very much.

"I sat there the rest of the night just reviewing how lack of faith in myself had dominated me ever since I could remember, how I had used my mind to work  against myself. I found that I had been preaching to myself why I couldn't get ahead instead of why I could. I had been selling myself short. I found this streak of self-depreciation showed through in everything I did. Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.

"Right then I decided, 'I'm through feeling second-class. From here on in I'm not going to sell myself short.'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             "Next morning I still had that confidence. During the job interview I gave my new found confidence its first test. Before I came for the interview I'd hoped I would have courage to ask for $750 or maybe even $1000 more than my present job was paying. But now, after realizing I was a valuable man, I upped it to $3,500. And I got it. I sold myself because after that one long night of self-analysis I found things in myself that made me more saleable.                                                                                                                                                                                                     "Within two years after I took that job I had established a reputation as the fellow who can get business. Then we went into a recession.  This made me still more valuable because I was one of the best business-getters in the industry. The company was reorganized and I was given a substantial amount of stock plus a lot more pay."

Wow! What a lesson. In fact, you can learn many lessons from this real life story.  Well, it was Napoleon Hill who said that whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve. And this is a great news.                         

What could possibly hold you back? Whatever barriers or obstacles you could face, you can overcome them once you determine to meet them head on. There are many angels out there to help you once you decide. Obstacles may turn out to be your stepping stones.  Wishing you Good luck and God's speed.

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