WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR DREAM
MEETS AN OBSTACLE
There are five things you can do when the dream bogs
down or the Castle in Spain has "troubles"
IF EVERY formula you read worked to perfection, we'd all be
millionaires.
Many things prevent the finest of formulas from working,
such as improper timing, world events, local happenings, and
general snafu.
But that is to be expected.
Any salesman will tell you that until he meets up with an
objection from his prospect, the sale isn't going any too well.
People who just nod but do nothing give you few sales.
Sand on the tracks often makes it possible for you to get a
good grip to move forward, so don't be upset when the
dream blurs or blows up.
That's the time to do five things.
The Five Point Program
Do one of the following five things:
1. Avoid the obstacle
2. Flee the obstacle
3. Neglect the obstacle
4. Succumb to the obstacle
5. Fight the obstacle
I believe that is about all you can do when an obstacle
suddenly confronts your dream.
You can avoid it or flee from it. You can neglect it, or
even succumb to it or you can fight it.
Take your choice.
In taking your choice you often reveal your true character,
for different characters take different action in overcoming
their objections.
Which Point Would You Choose?
If you avoid the obstacle, you might be a diplomat, that is,
providing the avoidance doesn't mean that the obstacle will
keep coming up again.
If you flee the obstacle you might be doing the right thing,
especially if the obstacle is a rattlesnake. Being a live coward
is often thought by some to be better than being a dead hero.
Neglecting the obstacle is a lazy way to avoid it. Some
people get along best by just neglecting. At least, they don't
worry and they have few ulcers.
Succumbing to the obstacle is often chosen, especially if it
is your appendix that needs removing.
Fighting the obstacle is usually the way the determined,
the strong, the ambitious go about overcoming their objec-
tion.
The "if-er" might avoid, flee, neglect, or succumb to the
obstacle/ but we sure know that the "how-er" will fight it!
At least then if he whips the obstacle, he knows it will be
less likely to return than if he merely flees it or otherwise
neglects and gives in to it.
Here Are Two Great Fighters
Carson Dennison, of Holtville, Alabama, one of those
1,000 success stories of mine, lost ids eyesight at 16.
A big obstacle to his youthful daydreams.
After five operations he decided not to succumb to his
troubles, but to fight them. He did it with the Master
Formula,, of knowing where to start, how to start what
to do.
Even without eyesight he knew he had imagination. With
this he became a mechanical engineer.
Today his dream is realized. He is a successful business
man, an expert plumber, electrician, mechanic.
His wife reads his blueprints, (Step Two), and he memo-
rizes them as she reads them.
That's fighting the obstacle not neglecting or giving in
to it.
Fred Lowry became blind very early in life. Tried to learn
to play the fiddle, but could not due to his handicap. But he
was determined to overcome this obstacle and still have a
musical career. He knew what he wanted; he blue-printed
it in his mind's eye and had others write it on paper for him.
Where to start, (Step Three), worried him until one day
a whistler came to town. Fred said here was a chance to be a
musician a whistling musician.
He set the idea into motion, never settled for less even
when Horace Heidt featured him for years. You hear him on
radio and on recordings. His next step now will be to learn
"when to relax."
She Met an Obstacle Successfully
"We going to go after what we want to get out of lif e, and
get it too."
That was the decision Margaret Winchell and her husband
made recently after 17 years of married life, when financial
obstacles met them.
With her family growing up and expenses mounting,
Mrs. Winchell like many women I know had decided
she would have to make something in the way of extra
income.
An experimental job as clerk in a dress shop and a try at
office work, didn't seem to provide the answer she sought.
And then she heard about direct selling through Oppor-
tunity magazine.
The particular plan in which Mrs. Winchell became inter-
ested is operated by a cosmetic company which sponsors what
they call Charm Forums.
These are parties arranged by the firm's representative in
the homes of prospects.
There are several such plans being used in different parts
of the country and almost all of them are finding some
success.
For women of middle-age, particularly, they offer pleasant,
rewarding work.
Mrs. Winchell, for instance, staged a total of 144 Charm
Forums during her first year with her present company,
earning just over {5 per hour for the time she devoted to her
sales work.
If you are a woman whose family has money problems,
ie want ad columns of your newspaper. You'll prob-
ably find several firms advertising for persons to join their
staffs part-time.
That's one system to overcome obstacles.
Where Do You Grasp Obstacles?
There are times of course when it is advisable to avoid,
flee, neglect or succumb to obstacles, but if you make "giving
in" a habit you'll weaken your character.
It is not always necessary to fight obstacles, but when they
are in your path that is often the best way.
There are times when you can go farther by carrying the
ball around the end, but there are just as many times when
you'll gain your goal by crashing, head on, into the line of
trouble.
At least you warn that obstacle you mean business.
Somehow or other when an obstacle confronts a man
"who means business," that obstacle melts. At least it loses
part of its wallop.
A formidable daydream a strong Castle in Spain won't
tumble from the huffs and puffs of obstacles.
Even the wolf found this out in dealing with the Three
Little Pigs.
Every Road Once Had Rocks and Holes
