…I am cross posting this from my person blog but I Believe this is relevant here…
I recently read a short book “The Success Formula-Three Principles That Will Turbocharge Your Success and Dramatically Improve Your Life” by Bob Burg. The book was a nice little motivating book that I was able to extract some nuggets from. I have copied an excerpt from the book.
Rabbi Yaakov Salomon tells the story of the lawyer arguing a case for his guilty client, who was on trial for murder.
The one challenge in the prosecution’s case was that the body had never been found. However, the abundance of expertly presented circumstantial evidence was more than compelling. Everyone in the coutroom, jurors included knew the man was guilty – so in his closing argument, the clever defense attorney decided to go for broke.
He pointed grandly toward the courtroom doors and declared “Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury: In exactly 60 seconds, the so-called “corpse”, the man you believe to be dead, is going to come walking in through those very doors. We can begin counting now!”
The time ticked by: one second, two seconds, three seconds, ten seconds, 20 secons, 45 seconds, 55 seconds, 56, 57, 58, 59…and then, exactly the one minute mark, in walked…..nobody at all. Certainly not the corpse.
The lawyer addressed the puzzled jury: “Ladies and Gentlemen – I apologize. I told you something that obviously did not come true.However, the mere fact that you looked at the doors showed me – and shows you- that you have ’some measure of doubt’. And of course, if you have any doubt, any doubt at all, you must-you must-return a verdict of NOT GUILTY!”
And with a triumphant flourish , he returned to his seat.
The jury went into deliberations- and just five minutes later, came back out to render theri verdict. The foreman stood up , faced the judge and said they declared the defendant- GUILTY!
The defense attorney was enraged. “How could you?!” he demanded. “I saw all of you watching that door!”
The foreman replied, “Yes, sir, you are correct: We were, in fact watching the door. But we were also watching you and your client- and you did not watch the door. Your client did not watch the door, not even for a moment.And that’s because you both knew there was not a chance in the world that anyone would be walking through it.”
The lesson? Don’t expect anyone else to believe something you don’t believe yourself!
There are other lessons within the story but what I take from it is if your belief system is big enough in your cause, your goals or whatever you want to call it, maybe that is the special ingredient in the Success Sauce!
One ingredient that I think I have been lacking and therefore struggling with my weight loss is the fact that I did not believe I could do it. I have changed that. Lets see what happens
