“Much distress, fatigue, loneliness, insecurity, unhealthiness and depression could be eliminated. Eliminated If people could learn to live fruitfully. By that I mean to eat right, exercise right, meditate right, help others, think right, this would cause a positive change. This understanding of the process would help relationships to become stronger, prevent health problems, increase confidence, cause people to become more respectful of you. This in turn brings you and I up. In turn to lead other people under your influence down the same positive path. This book is an effort to provide in understandable language, a working knowledge.
A working knowledge of how to use some of my lessons and skills to improve your life.”
- Geoffrey P. Blakely
We learn through others, books do not teach, people do. Sometimes in life we do not have a mentor or role model. We have goals, ideas but do not know how to pursue those things.
Les Brown, a famous speaker and writer, said: What if after all this you were on your deathbed. All these people were standing around you watching you die. None of those people were not family or friends. They were your ideas. They were pleading with you, “Why didn’t you try me, why didn’t you see what would and could happen? Even just tried.”
Is this you?
I’m going to use some quotes, most of them will be from the world’s most successful people. Never think those successes were easy. Never think that,…that cannot be you! They started out below means. Below means to start the businesses they created without much.
Most if not all tried and failed many times. If you understand this, you know what you are getting into.
To much is given, much is required.
What is required? It’s up to you. Read this; Most never stayed alive to see there goals obtained which is sad. Most tried to carry on the family creation. Which by that I mean those around the creator tried to keep it going. So look at Steve Jobs, gone now. Biggest innovator of all time. All that success, but not here. In another series I will explain why. Why some people choose this, what the purpose is, why they go to leave us early. I do have the answer. I have all answers, no BS. Most never have a family, or the family is gone away. To us the point is:
So what’s your idea?
If you have had great ideas or things you wanted to try. Might be a book, a relationship, a business, a product, a store or just an idea to start with. You and I, I bet we just looked and saw just successful people. We thought damn look at that, they make it look so easy. We might have been jealous, which is normal, but…..
You never saw the process. All the hard knocks, the banks that said no, investors that wanted to see results first. Results before a product was made. The people that said, “it will never work.” Go ahead and just get a job, stop trying.
It’s why you….
….need to cut out all those people.
We call them naysayers or haters. They will drag you down. If you are still in school, we can call them bullies. You might be different, you might look different or your mindset is different. Stay away from this nonsense. If you are a woman and you are feeling this pressure. Put on your wonder woman tights, let them shine through your clothes. Lift your head up, walk in proud and walk out proud, and be wonder woman. Same with the guys. Choose your super hero. Go and be him.
Don’t let the new’s, friends, naysayers, haters, family or anyone tear down your dream. As I said above according to Les Brown. Just try some of your ideas or dreams.
Watch some of these new marvel movies. Notice how many times do the hero’s get knocked down? They sure get knocked down a lot. In life do we get knocked down as much? Yes of course so. So obviously you are still reading and I hope you are still reading. You do have a reason and a gift to be here, and I will go into some funny stories in a few pages to uplift your spirits…
I will tell you. It’s not easy. I grew up with a father, he went bankrupt on the road to success. We went back and forth. Good one day, bad the next. You never knew what was going to happen.
It’s nice to have the bills paid and be comfortable. Sometimes though, you want to try to see what happens. To try you have to start out in the basement, you can’t just start there and go straight to the penthouse, in one push of a button in a moment.
Everyone with an idea started at the bottom. In life we never see the bottom they went through, but we see the finished result. That’s not fair to us dreamers. The ones that fantasize about creating something. Taking something from our head, to a sketch on a napkin, to a computer, to creating something we can hold. No mater if its a product, musical production, video, etc. I understand everyone that has those ideas. Those with ideas that can’t do anything with them but store them away in their head.
It’s not like that now, those idea’s do have a chance, if you listen.
We see that tv or print ad and not all the ink or blood spilled to make it. Looks like they just went from point A to B. You never saw all the zigzags from A to D, F to O, Z to A again.
So I will try to use some real life examples of people who have tried and failed many times. No I will refrain from using the Edison light bulb story, it’s overplayed.
We’ve all heard of Porsche, right? The cars, the ones you still look at on the road passing by. Well Porsche was founded by Dr. Ingrid Ferry Porsche. He grew up in a family in Germany which is now part of Chezk Replublic. His father was a panel beater for Daimler-Benz. Eventually young Porsche got a job there. He was excellent at it. In April 1931 he started Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche GmbH, Konstruktionen und Beratungen für Motoren und Fahrzeugbau. It just means he was a consultant for designs and engine work of automobiles.
When the war came I think he was forced by the Nazi’s to do military design and building of wartime equipment. He built and designed many weapons. He designed in 1942, the VK4501 also known as "Tiger (P)” it was not used. Hence another company won the contract. Maybe this is why his cars are expensive to work on. Don’t blame him his son designed all those we’ve come to see.
At wartime the French Authorities arrested Anton, Piëch, and Ferry.
Ferry stayed almost a year in prison in France. I believe they gave the French Government almost a million dollars to let Ferry Porsche out.
The Porsche family returned to Stuttgart in 1949 not knowing how to restart their business. The banks would not give them credit, as the company's plant was still under American embargo and could not serve as collateral. So Ferry Porsche took one of the limited series 356 models from Gmünd and visited Volkswagen dealers to raise some orders. He asked the dealers to pay for the ordered cars in advance.
The serial version made in Stuttgart had a steel body welded to the central-tube platform chassis instead of the aluminium body used in the small Gmünd-made series. When Ferry Porsche resurrected the company he counted on series production figures of about 1,500. More than 78,000 Porsche 356s were manufactured in the following 17 years.
Porsche was later contracted by Volkswagen for additional consulting work and received a royalty on every Volkswagen Type I (Beetle) car manufactured. This provided Porsche with a comfortable income as more than 20 million Type I were built.
In November 1950, Porsche visited the Wolfsburg Volkswagen factory for the first time since the end of World War II. Porsche spent his visit chatting with Volkswagen president Heinrich Nordhoff about the future of VW Beetle, which were already being produced in large numbers.
A few weeks later, Porsche suffered a stroke. He did not fully recover, and died on 30 January 1951.
In 1996, Porsche was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame and in 1999 posthumously won the award of Car Engineer of the Century.
So when the war came Porsche was not the word you hear today. Can’t get a loan. Now look you know when you see a porsche, you can’t forget it. It’s almost like McDonald’s logo.
Dr. Ferdinand Porsche famous quote is this:
“"Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and move independently ahead. Without independence, without the freedom for new ideas to be tried, to fail, and to ultimately succeed, the world will not move ahead, but live in fear of its own potential." Dr. Ferdinand Porsche”
“Whatever is not working in your life, if you keep doing it, it will gain the same result, same people, wanting to do the same thing. “
When you let go of those old anchors, those boats will float away. You will show God, that I’m ready to move on. Into another harbor.
When God see’s this, some new boats will come into your new harbor. A few at first. then more as you set your anchor down. As long as that anchor is set for good as well as good intentions.
It’s your harbor first.
Then…..
It’s the boats you choose. Be careful with those. Make sure the hull is upright, sail and mast are taking them where they want to be. Do they know how to sail, did they just start, or are they an advanced sailer. You need to know.
I grew up with water, boats and cars, airplanes too. My father would do what he had to do for me to experience them. You would be pretty hard to find a car, motorcycle or boat that I couldn’t sail or drive. Hey I might could be able to do the engine work, but I would happily learn if I couldn’t. I would at least try.
An airplane, I might could save your life if it was the only way out.
Not much I can’t figure out. It was instilled in me my whole life, if it was mechanical I would find a way. As the years went buy life got less mechanical and more emotional. That’s where it got hard.
Things got more emotional as my father was away working in his construction business, my mother was at a retail store. As being the only child I learned to find ways to stay busy. So my
grandparents would pick me up on a couple of weekends a month. My grandmother had a plant nursery, very busy on the weekends, I would push a cart and help customers with their plants they bought. It was so nice to meet all these different people. Meanwhile my grandfather would be doing the books for a couple car dealerships, and watch sports of course.
At other times my parents and went to the lake to go sailing and boating.
At the age of 4 I was on a pier in a lake known as Kerr Lake on the border of VIrgina and North Carolina.
My mother and her friend were with us. They were back at the shore. It was just my father and I.
He had a sailboat at the pier or within it. As my father went into the store I was on the pier waiting. I ended up falling off the pier.
Now at 4 I couldn’t swim, barely dog paddle. I sunk to the bottom.
My father came back to the boat and couldn’t find me. Immediately jumped in the water and
pulled me up from the bottom. I still can remember the weeds and coughing up water. He jumped in with his clothes on.
This stuck with me the rest of my life.
We ended up taking scuba diving lessons some 8 years later. Was so fun. I was so young I didn’t pass the hard parts of the tests to get certified. Was a big disappointment. The scuba instructors said they had never seen a guy young as me go through training like that.
Basically Marine’s water training.
To this day I have no idea why my father did that.
He was tough, but always fun.
To this day I don’t have my certification, it was not important. What was important that my father was trying to instill something.
An Anchor, those that come to harbour, those that need to figure out there harbour.
Habors are like our mind all kinds of boats. ships come in, what ships and boats do you want?
Are the winds calm, weather calm, waves and currents calm?
Is your hull upright, sails at mast or engines at readiness?
After all this time, the little I was around these crafts I could tell you with deep down confidence, I could fly an airplane pretty good, I know enough to get through. Any car would be 100 percent and almost any boat. Still when I’m around my parents, as being an only child I yearn for that attention and that love.
Don’t get me wrong I can make it on my own. I love to be independant. We all seek our parents love and approval. We need it. It’s like our heavenly father we want and seek his approval. It’s what gives us incentive to learn and grow.