I heard this little poem yesterday and really liked it.

When you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it,

To work day and night for it,

To give up your peace and your sleep and your time for it;

If only the desire of it makes your aim strong enough never to tire of it;

If life seems all empty and useless without it,

And all that you dream and you scheme is about it;

If gladly you’ll sweat for it, fret for it, plan for it,

Pray with all your strength for it;

If you’ll simply go after the thing that you want with all your capacity,

Strength and sagacity; faith, hope, and confidence, stern pertinacity;

If neither poverty nor cold nor famish nor gaunt,

Nor sickness or pain to body or brain can turn you away

From the aim that you want;

If dogged and grim, you besiege and beset it,

With the help of God, you WILL get it!

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Aaron Clendenning

aaron@embracevision.com

One of my favorite quotes from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

It comes from the chapter about Desire which is said to be the starting point for all achievement and the first step to riches.

I bargained with Life for a penny

 And Life would pay no more,

However I begged at evening

When I counted my scanty store.

For Life is a just employer,

He gives you what you ask,

But once you have set the wages,

Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial’s hire,

Only to learn, dismayed,

That any wage I had asked of Life,

Life would have willingly paid.

You can have anything you desire in life, but it won’t come easy.

Aaron Clendenning

aaron@embracevision.com