Fifteen years ago I was renting a house and… I got myself in trouble. I didn’t pay the rent on time and I don’t know exactly but I think I was behind on three monthly installments of rent. My landlord at the time gave me three weeks to come up with the money before he would throw me out of the house.
At that time I was also looking for a job and did not have income. My circumstances were not so good and at some point it really looked like I was going to lose my home. I remember that I was looking at the letter of the landlord and grinding my brain trying to come up with a plan that would lead to some sort of solution. I did not have much options then, the most logical option I had was to go to a temp agency and start working. Actually to come up with that idea didn’t require much thinking. But what I did think about was that if I would work a certain amount of days for a certain salary, I had a chance I could make it. So I did, I went to the temp agency, got myself a job somewhere and worked. I remember those three weeks went by in a rush.
But…. after twenty days, one day before I had to pay my due, I had the money 
. I actually had more money then the amount I needed.
I never forgot this little experience. It proved to me that if you are with your back against the wall and that if you have the willpower and you really want to do something about your situation you can and will achieve that! Napoleon Hill once said that ‘if the desire is strong enough, the word impossible no longer has any meaning’.
For the last few months I contemplate about my career and what I like to do with my future. I am making plans and set my goals. I am trying to recreate the ‘feeling of standing with my back against the wall’ again. This time not for reasons as mentioned above, but to align all the factors I need to succeed with my next endeavor.
Through insights and getting advice from the right kind of people, (some refer to them as mentors or teachers) I know exactly how to recreate that feeling, yes that’s what it is, how to recreate that same kind of emotion that helped me succeed years ago!
I got the actual kick start with the jig saw pieces I needed last week during a skype conversation with a friend from the ‘States’. In my next post I plan to reveal how it all came together.
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