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Happy Sunday everyone!

you know, one of my favourite books on the subject of personal development is the book Think and grow rich by Napolean Hill. The title of this book is very profound as are the contents.

in it, the author Napolean Hill states that one of the key components to attaining wealth (and by wealth, not necesserily monetary) is to have a burning desire for it…

At the London mastermind event we ran this week, My friend, Carl Boniface, shared a story I hadn’t heard in a while that really epitomises the burning desire for success… I will paraphrase;

A young man desperate for wealth approached a wealthy, successful man and asked him to teach him the secrets to attaining such a high level of success.

The gentleman thought for a moment and agreed to mentor this young person and told him, if you wish to learn how to be truly successful, meet me at the beach at 4am… remember to wear your best suit!

4am?! exclaimed the youngster but he understood that he wanted to be successful so sure enough he was at the beach at 4am the next morning. He asked his mentor, can you tell me the secrets to success now?

His mentor replied, first, walkin into the sea until the water is waist high. He looked at his mentor with a puzzled expression mixed with worry as he was wearing his best suit but after receiving a look that spoke volumes, he ventured into the water until he was waist high in salty sea water.

The mentor followed him and then grabbed him by the hair and forced his head under the water… Fighting to get back up the young man could not fight his mentors resistance until nearly a minute went by he managed to get his head above water and gasp for breath.

The mentor said to the young man. What was on your mind as you were under the water?
“To Breath!” replied the young man.

His mentor replied, When you want success as badly as you wanted air to breath in that moment, you shall have it!

until next time,

Stay blessed and keep shining

Fahad x

p.s. a big thanks to carl for reminding me about that story!