When i read this scrolls and committed to following through each scroll, I began to see my life transform
from who i was to the new me!!!!
The Scroll Marked One
30 day commitment 3 times a day
Today I begin a new life.
Today I shed my old skin, which has too long suffered the bruises of
failure and the wounds of mediocrity.
Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit
for all.
Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest and fullest vines in
the vineyard, for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have
come before me, generation upon generation.
Today I will savor the taste of grapes from these vines and verily I will
swallow the seed of success buried in each and new life will sprout within
me.
The career I have chosen is laden with opportunity yet it is fraught with
heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those who have failed, were they
piled one atop another, would cast a shadow down upon all the pyramids of
the earth.
Yet I will not fail, as the others, for in my hands I now hold the
charts, which will guide through perilous waters to shores, which only
yesterday seemed but a dream.
Failure no longer will be my payment for struggle. Just as nature made no
provision for my body to tolerate pain neither has it made any provision for
my life to suffer failure. Failure, like pain, is alien to my life. In the
past I accepted it as I accepted pain. Now I reject it and I am prepared for
wisdom and principles which will guide me out of the shadows into the
sunlight of wealth, position, and happiness far beyond my most extravagant
dreams until even the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides will seem no
more than my just reward.
Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the
luxury of eternity. Yet within my allotted time I must practice the art of
patience for nature acts never in haste. To create the olive, king of all
trees, a hundred years is required. An onion plant is old in nine weeks. I
have lived as an onion plant. It has not pleased me. Now I wouldst become
the greatest of olive trees and, in truth, the greatest of salesman.
And how will this be accomplished? For I have neither the knowledge nor
the experience to achieve the greatness and already I have stumbled in
ignorance and fallen into pools of self-pity. The answer is simple. I will
commence my journey unencumbered with either the weight of unnecessary
knowledge or the handicap of meaningless experience. Nature already has
supplied me with knowledge and instinct far greater than any beast in the
forest and the value of experience is overrated, usually by old men who nod
wisely and speak stupidly.
In truth, experience teaches thoroughly yet her course of instruction
devours men's years so the value of her lessons diminishes with the time
necessary to acquire her special wisdom. The end finds it wasted on dead
men. Furthermore, experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved
successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow.
Only principles endure and these I now possess, for the laws that will
lead me to greatness are contained in the words of these scrolls. What they
will teach me is more to prevent failure than to gain success, for what is
success other than a state of mind? Which two, among a thou　and wise men,
will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but
one way. Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever
they may be.
In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who
have succeed lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key
to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first
law I will obey, which precede all the others is --I will form good habits
and become their slave.
As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as
are all grown men. I have surrendered my free will to the years of
accumulated habits and the past deeds of my life have already marked out a
path which threatens to imprison my future. My actions are ruled by
appetite, passion, prejudice, greed, love, fear, environment, habit, and the
worst of these tyrants is habit. Therefore, if I must be a slave to habit
let me be a slave to good habits. My bad habits must be destroyed and new
furrows prepared for good seed.
I will form good habits and become their slave.
And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls, it
will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad
habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to
success. For it is another of nature's laws that only a habit can subdue
another habit. So, in order for these written words to perform their chosen
task, I must discipline myself with the first of my new habits which is as
follows:
I will read each scroll for thirty days in this prescribed manner, before
I proceed to the next scroll.
First, I will read the words in silence when I arise. Then, I will read
the words in silence after I have partaken of my midday meal. Last, I will
read the words again just before I retire at day's end, and most important,
on this occasion I will read the words aloud.
On the next day I will repeat this procedure, and I will continue in like
manner for thirty days. Then, I will turn to the next scroll and repeat this
procedure for another thirty days. I will continue in this manner until I
have lived with each scroll for thirty days and my reading has become habit.
And what will be accomplished with this habit? Herein lies the hidden
secret of all man's accomplishments. As I repeat the words daily they will
soon become a part of my active mind, but more important, they will also
seep into my other mind, that mysterious source which never sleeps, which
creates my dreams, and often makes me act in ways I do not comprehend.
As the words of these scrolls are consumed by my mysterious mind I will
begin to awake, each morning, with a vitality I have never known before. My
vigor will increase, my enthusiasm will rise, my desire to meet the world
will overcome every fear I once knew at sunrise, and I will be happier than
I ever believed it possible to be in this world of strife and sorrow.
Eventually I will find myself reacting to all situations which confront
me as I was commanded in the scrolls to react, and soon these actions and
reactions will become easy to perform, for any act with practice becomes
easy.
Thus a new and good habit is born, for when an act becomes easy through
constant repetition it becomes a pleasure to perform and if it is a pleasure
to perform it is man's nature to perform it often. When I perform it often
it becomes a habit and I become its slave and since it is a good habit this
is my will.
Today I begin a new life.
And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life's
growth. I will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be
retrieved nor can I substitute another for it. I must not, I will not, break
this habit of daily reading from these scrolls and, in truth, the few
moments spent each day on this new habit are but a small price to pay for
the happiness and success that will be mine.
As I read and re-read the words in the scrolls to follow, never will I
allow the brevity of each scroll nor the simplicity of its words to cause me
to treat the scroll's message lightly. Thousands of grapes are pressed to
fill one jar with wine, and the grape skin and pulp are tossed to the birds.
So it is with these grapes of wisdom from the ages. Much has been filtered
and tossed to the wind. Only the pure truth lies distilled in the words to
come. I will drink as instructed and spill not a drop. And the seed of
success I will swallow.
Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they
will know me not , for today I am a new man, with a new life.
Sincerely, www.vrtmg.com/framirez
Personal Field Trainer
Fernando Ramirez
(818)626-0569
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