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Veteran At Failure Turned Around.
Submitted by: A failure changed.
South DakotaProfessional musician turned college professor, then father, then widower, then success.
I was a young, single, professional musician, moderately successful as single touring player. I wanted stable life, so got a doctorate to teach college. One incredible professor recommended The Secret to help us get over our fears of performing and succeeding and to give us the outlook to continue working.
I failed in my exams but managed to reboot and finish, thus I received the degree. I then decided it was time to start a family. I found a wonderful young woman, got married, had twins, and got my first college job. She was dead from cancer two years later.
I blew through $100K in life insurance with wild speculation and uninformed judgments and thus I had completed my financial failure on this planet. This bottoming out caused a refocus. Perhaps for the first time in my life, I went on a dead serious pursuit of understanding The Secret, and all the associated books, tapes, and other media.
A decade later I received a small settlement on a medical situation in the death of my wife. I studied real estate and made a phone call at 8 am one morning. It was to a colleague who I was told owned all the apartments around campus. I called him for information and some possible mentoring. I had no idea he was trying to sell 5 buildings around campus as he was overloaded. I bought his 5 buildings at a tremendous discount, I did not know that either. Then the local market exploded right after that. Rents went up and vacancies went down.
I bought 8 more houses and two more buildings to date. I remarried and had two more kids. I am living the dream that I used to have but had always felt was impossible for me because failure had been a way of life. After using The Secret every minute of every day, I have achieved what I thought was impossible. This is a unique and wonderful thing. Thank you!