Advise if your Desperate

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A business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out. Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said.
After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."

He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."
Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come. The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000. It was signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!

"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized.

But instead, the executive decided to put the un-cashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought. With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the un-cashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man. "I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller." then she led the old man away by the arm.

The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his new found self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he ever imagined.
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    Good one,

    Self confidence, motivation and self inspiration can make one Hero from Zero.

    I think its very important to have these quality in life but I would emphasize that every person in IM should have these qualities to become successful because when you work in IM, you are working for yourself, you are building your own business. There is no one behind you, there is no one to guide you, what ever you do, you are at your own.
    When you make mistakes, never get disappointed with mistakes, some people think that they have made mistakes and wasted time which can lead one to his / her end in IM. The good approach is when one make mistakes, he / she should analyse what went wrong and try to correct it and learn from it rather than weeping on mistakes.
    I think most warriors will agree with me that all successful IMers have extreme self confidence, motivation and self inspiration.
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