Don't Read This Book If You Don't Want To Win

By Mark A. Edwards

Around here, you'll find priceless lessons from successful & prolific author, Mark Edwards, on how to see everything from the perspective of someone who is going to be successful.

Around here, we will be to-the-point.

 

What not to expect – Too many lengthy paragraphs. We do respect your time and other commitments.

 

What to expect – Straight-Up content on making you think and act like a winner.

 

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Edwards
• Release date: Feb 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201046200

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You'll Get There–

If You Never Give Up

No one's allowed to tell you you can't.  If you know you can then you can.  If you're not sure you can then you'll probably be influenced by the people around you.  If they say you can't then you'll believe them. Belief makes you poor and belief makes you rich.

You only need to start.  No one said it's going to be easy.  And hey, you don't have to be perfect because nothing is; no one is.  That's why we keep improving.  That's why we keep researching because we want to get better the next time around.  And, if something didn't work or you didn't succeed at something then that doesn't mean that you've failed.  It only means you've learnt what will not work and so you're next attempt will be different.

I remember when writing my first book, which happened as a result of an experiment at Self-Publishing.  I remembered how depressed I was at the time after being made redundant from my 9 to 5 bank job of close to twenty years.  I had suddenly lost my secured income shortly after moving into my own home.  I remembered telling the housing agency that I wouldn't be able to pay my mortgage because I was now jobless.  They encouraged me to pay up 6 months of my mortgage, as a start, from my redundancy package.  But this wasn't possible because the payment figure on that redundancy package was ZERO!

So I left the job with nothing.  At first, the redundancy figure seemed like a joke but when I realized it wasn't, I left to take a bus home, almost forgetting that I had driven to work that day.  On that grey Friday, I remembered the grin on my manager's face after handing me that redundancy letter.  I remembered my car running out of gas that Friday evening.  It's like being pushed off a ship, into a desperate ocean, and you know you can't swim; you go down or you figure a way to stay afloat.  But I knew I wasn't going down.  I knew I had to stay afloat.  I remembered this other manager who had also gotten his redundancy letter telling me he wished he was in my shoe.

How comes? I asked him.

And this is what he said. How much you owe the company?

And I said, " about $100,000 (about US$800 at the time)

He said, "well, I got a redundancy payment of  $20 million (about US$168,000 at the time) but I owe the company (the bank) close to $48 million (about US$403,661 at the time).

So, ok, then?  So, as a person who got only zero dollars for his redundancy package, I had a more favorable net worth than someone who had gotten 20 million for his package.  That was a start for me.  I wasn't the worst, was I?  I only needed to pay off my little debt.  But it wasn't easy. Why?  I had no stable income at the time.  The bills were piling up.  I had a family to feed. I had to be the man of the home but I felt as though I was losing it.  As I pursued employment, I would keep getting promises but nothing was forthcoming.  And the problems started coming, from one to the other.  The good thing though, my wife is very supportive.  She stood by me.  She would encourage me.  Though she was frustrated at times, because she's human, she believed in me. The bad thing about that – I felt less of a man.  It was so emasculating.  I was raised to provide