CHAPTER TEN

Become Everything You Are Capable of Becoming

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

—BRIAN TRACY

My first job after leaving school without graduating was washing dishes in the kitchen of a small hotel. This was the first of a series of laboring jobs—stacking lumber in a sawmill, digging wells, working on farms and ranches, putting nuts on bolts on a factory production line—that occupied me for the first few years of my career.

The turning point in my life came when I discovered the law of cause and effect, the great law of the universe and human destiny. I learned that everything happens ...

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