winston-churchill Fantastic Frank JohnsonDid you ever notice that the universe sends a sort of “freebie” gift when you start something new?

  • Clients at your door before you open business…
  • Honeymoon experience with new love interest…
  • Hit a home run your first time trading stocks…
  • New job and already promoted…
  • Win the lottery with your first ticket…
  • You get big bucks out of no where for your first speaking engagement

What happens next? You know the drill:

  • Your business goes bust after a boom…
  • Your new love turns out to be everyone else’s too…
  • Investments turn to loosing streak..
  • Promotion means longer hours and more stress, which tests your marriage…
  • One year later you have less money than before you won the lottery…
  • Instead of getting paid, you are the now one paying to get on stage…

This is a common phenomena. Don’t loose hope. There are always tests when you shoot for the moon!

For inspiration, let’s turn to the life of Winston Churchill, which you can investigate further at this link: http://www.historyinanhour.com/2013/01/24/churchill-school-education/

Did you know that Churchill nearly died of double pneumonia when he was a child?

That at 18 years old a terrible accident, including a ruptured kidney, required over a year to recover from, and nearly took his life?

Or that he had to apply three times before getting accepted to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst?

One of the most deeply inspiring speeches I know of is Winston Churchill’s “Never Give In” speech, which is often misquoted. For a full account, go to this link: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1941-1945-war-leader/103-never-give-in

He gave the speech 10 months into World War II, on October 29, 1941, to his alma mater, the Harrow school. The two parts that hit me the hardest are these:

 “I am addressing myself to the School – surely from this period of ten months this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

and

“Do not let us speak of darker days: let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days; these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.”

So, if your honeymoon with the universe seems over, I hope these quotes will help you take heart and persist.

by Fantastic Frank Johnson

Author of “From Flawed to Fantastic”

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