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Henry And The Law Of Attraction.
Submitted by: Stuart William Morris
Birmingham, UKI am the Director of a natural health center in Birmingham. I am also a spiritual healer.
Years ago, I worked in a local hospice one day a week, volunteering. At the time, I was practicing holistic therapies, like reflexology and massage. I would have a list of people to see and then go around the wards and talk with some of the patients and offer them some comfort through the medium of reflexology or massage and just as importantly, spend time to talk. I met some amazing people and I’d like to tell you a story about one of them.
One particular day, I was asked by the team leader to look after a man she described as a real gentleman who was due in for respite and had cancer. I met Henry and he turned out to be a real storyteller.
He told me tales of his days as a gunner in the air force, how he’d been shot down twice and landed in the Atlantic sea and survived. He told me when he came out of the army after the 2nd World War had ended, he was still a young man and only had his bursary. He didn’t know what to do for work but was good with cars. So he and his friend decided to repair cars, , they had an alleyway and worked from there.
He stayed at his mother’s house and he said on his bedroom wall, in pencil, he drew a ladder and at different steps on that ladder, he wrote what he wanted to achieve at each few stages of his life. At 24, 28, 32, etc. He wrote that he wanted a car, a house, a business, and so on until he was 50. Then he wrote that he wanted to retire a millionaire and own a Rolls Royce, and a boat.
He said that each morning, his mom would come into his bedroom with a cup of tea and say, “Have you got anything on your ladder yet son? “No, but I will” he’d answer. Every morning, he would fix his gaze upon that ladder on the wall and feel it happen.
He carried on with his friend and they built a good little business but his friend was a drinker and Henry knew that he couldn’t achieve what he wanted with him. One day, his friend crashed a car due to drinking and that was it, he knew they had to part ways and Henry looked for a place of his own.
At the time he still had very little money and he drove around for months looking for something he could afford. There was nothing.
Then one day, he said that today will be my last trip out to find a place. On that trip, his car started to shudder and eventually came to a stop at the side of the road. Henry felt demoralized. He sat there thinking, what now?
After a few minutes, he looked up and looked across the road and saw an old run-down garage. He walked over to the garage, walked in, and looked around. It was very run down, but his mind was focused on how he could change it.
A man came out and said, “Can I help you squire? Henry said,” Well actually, I’d like to buy your garage.” The man looked at him and said, “Well, I’m looking to sell it because I have had enough.”
Henry borrowed money from anyone and everyone who would lend it to him and he bought the old run-down garage. He worked hard and turned it into the first garage with a petrol station attached to it in Birmingham.
Eventually, he bought another garage and ended up a millionaire. He retired at 50 and he got his boat and his Rolls Royce.
When I met him, he said that his greatest achievement was looking after his mom, and his sister through cancer. He lived modestly and had the money in the bank, but neither flaunted it nor showed that hand to anyone. He was generous with his wisdom and his time and left an impression on me that I carry with me in the form of insight gained from the conversations we shared.
He was the original co-creator. A ladder written in pencil on the wall, the coincidence of breaking down outside the garage, and the metaphor of that, that alone makes you think of breakdowns in a different way. “From destruction comes growth.”
He told me once that people do whatever they want. I appreciate him even more many years after his passing and now I have my own ladder.
Stuart