I want to share a personal story here today
in this "Six Minutes to Success"
and I guarantee ya, there's a phenomenal lesson in it
for you and for many people that you may communicate with.
It's a personal story and it's about my son Raymond.
Raymond is a big guy.
He's much bigger than me.
And when Raymond was in high school,
that's quite a long time ago,
Raymond was on the swimming team.
He was a good swimmer, he was a very good swimmer.
I went to a couple of meets and I did mention,
I talked to the coach one time and the coach said
they really like having Raymond on the team
because he's such a strong swimmer.
He was strong because he was big.
And he liked it I think.
Now, I think it's probably much the same almost everywhere.
If you're on a swimming team in school or in college,
you probably train very early in the morning.
And we'd hear Raymond leaving the house
at around five o'clock.
Didn't make too much noise but there was enough
that we knew Raymond was leaving the house,
and he's off to school and he's going to be in the tank,
and practice swimming.
And this went on for quite awhile and one day,
Raymond and I were in the kitchen.
I was in the kitchen and Raymond come in.
And Raymond's wandering around, wandering around.
I often say it's like they're circling the field
and you know they're going to drop something on ya,
you just don't know what it is.
So anyway, Raymond, he's talking and he said,
"Dad, can I talk to you for a minute?"
And I said, "Sure, Ray, what's up?"
"Well," he said, "Dad, I've been thinking
"about the swimming."
He said, "I'm thinking of quitting the team."
I said, "I thought you enjoyed it."
"Well, I did but I've been thinking a lot about it
"and, you know, I'm not going to use swimming
"when I graduate.
"It's not going to help me with my income
"or in the job I get."
And I said, "Well, that's probably true
"unless you become a life guard or something."
And so he said, "I just think I'm going to quit."
And I said, "Well, are you
"a pretty important part of the team?"
"Well, maybe, yeah, I guess I am."
And I said, "How does the team feel about this?"
"Well, I haven't told them yet."
"How does the coach feel about it?"
"Well, I haven't told him yet."
And I said, "And how do you feel about it?"
"Well, I just decided that I'm going to quit."
Now, I know exactly what Raymond's problem was.
Raymond was sick and tired of getting up
at five o'clock in the morning while all the rest of us
stayed in bed.
He didn't like it.
He wasn't thinking of the win.
He was thinking of the price he was paying.
So he said, "Well, you don't mind?"
I said, "Hell no," I said, "I don't mind."
"I'm not on the team.
"Not going to bother me.
"If you want to quit, quit."
"Oh gosh," he said, "I thought you'd be upset."
"Why?
"No, I'm not upset.
"You want to quit, quit."
And you could just see a sigh of relief.
And he was leaving and he said, "It's okay then?"
I said, "Sure."
And just as he was leaving the kitchen, I said,
"Oh by the way, Ray,"
I said, "You're having trouble with this, aren't ya?"
"Well," he said, "yeah, a little."
And I said, "You've been thinking about this for awhile
"and you've had trouble with it for awhile."
I said, "I'll bet you even had trouble to come and see me.
"Did ya?"
"Well, yeah."
I said, "You know something, Ray?
"You've put a lot of time into this."
"Now," I said, "next time you go to quit
"it's going to be easier.
"It'll be a lot easier because you've learned how."
And I said, "If you keep it up, Ray,
"you'll master it and you'll be a quitter."
I said, "You think about it.
"You do what you want to do."
He looked at me and he said,
"Okay."
And he walked away.
He understood what I was saying.
And that's the way it is.
When the going gets tough,
quitting should never be an option.
Yet, in every project, there's escape hatches
and if you don't bolt them closed,
when the going gets tough, voom, away you go.
When you make up your mind to do something,
quitting should never be an option.
If you're going to quit, quit when you're at your peak,
when you're very, very successful.
You'll often see that with TV shows.
They quit when they're very successful.
But don't quit because you're tired of paying the price.
You see, if you pay the price,
the reward is going to be that much sweeter.
Now, Ray learned that as a young guy.
I learned that a long time ago.
Raymond and I both learned a lot out of that.
Hopefully you've learned something.
Absolutely refuse to quit when you know what you're doing,
what you're studying, the price you're paying
is going to pay enormous dividends in the long run.
Remember, 3% of the population earn 97% of all the money
that's being earned.
It's not an accident.
It's not that they're that bright.
Some of them aren't.
But you know something?
They've learned to pay the price
and they always earn the reward.
It's got nothing to do with being smart.
It's got nothing to do with being better.
It has to do with being wise.
And if you learn that lesson and you burn it into your mind,
you will always come up with results that stick.
This is Bob Proctor and thank you.
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