Even though I was already accomplished in school, sports and business, at 17 I started listening to motivational tapes until about age 28. I think I had listened to every one of the Motivational Tapes from the Nightengale-Conant Catalog and all the famous motivator names. I had subscribed to the tape series of the month, I had two-subscriptions, so I had enough to listen too, as they had a plan you could pick in advance which ones they sent to you. I would play them through and over again many times.
In my mobile car wash business (CarWashGuys.com) sometimes the workers would get mad, because I played them in the work truck all the time. This is before I built that company into a Multi-State Franchising Corporation. Although some of the workers did not like it at first, that did not stop me; eventually I am certain it rubbed off on them.
Sometimes I would give the tapes away to young sales people or folks who needed an uplift, generally unless they were total strangers in one time chance meeting they would indeed thank me later after a few weeks of listening. Some people tried to give them back because I think they realized they were expensive, I always refused and asked that they pass them on to someone else, long before the movie pay it forward. I wonder sometimes how many people those tape series and attached booklets in those plastic cases helped?
I still own many of the books from these motivational folks in my personal library. All this in my quest to keep winning, building and bettering myself. Now I just talk like that anyway and might make the best motivator of self myself? Sooner or later, it becomes habit. I do not care if you are already a winner in life, it still makes sense to take it to the next level, I do, I wish more folks would.
A Letter from Lance.
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