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As Russell often says during his presentations about attracting Joint Venure partners, it is a numbers game with each "no" bringing you one person closer to a "yes". Don often reminds us that knowing your why (Belize) will keep you in the game when the times are tough. A recent issue of The Economist had a sidebar on Amazon worldwide bestsellers called True Stories - Hope and inspiration fuel the most popular biographies and autobiographies. The following tidbit was included:
When Greg Mortenson, a six-foot-four night-nurse and mountaineer from Montana, first visited Pakistan in 1993 to climb K2, the world`s second-highest peak, he failed in his mountain quest but ended up doing more to win hearts and minds in the region than any amount of official American propoganda.
Mr. Mortenson began by planning a five-room school which, using local craftsmen and materials, he reckoned would cost $12,000 to build. Then he set about writing letters - to senators, to millionaires, to Oprah Winfrey and to a fellow footballer, who like him, had attended the University of South Dakota. In all he wrote 580 letters, and received a single cheque in the post (from the student footballer) for $100. But he never gave up.
Today Mr. Mortenson has built 55 schools, as he says in his best selling memoir, "Three Cups of Tea", one school at a time. And he still has more to build. Who says you need guns to fight the war on terror?
Persistence and a vision will help you overcome virtually all obstacles.
Keith
When Greg Mortenson, a six-foot-four night-nurse and mountaineer from Montana, first visited Pakistan in 1993 to climb K2, the world`s second-highest peak, he failed in his mountain quest but ended up doing more to win hearts and minds in the region than any amount of official American propoganda.
Mr. Mortenson began by planning a five-room school which, using local craftsmen and materials, he reckoned would cost $12,000 to build. Then he set about writing letters - to senators, to millionaires, to Oprah Winfrey and to a fellow footballer, who like him, had attended the University of South Dakota. In all he wrote 580 letters, and received a single cheque in the post (from the student footballer) for $100. But he never gave up.
Today Mr. Mortenson has built 55 schools, as he says in his best selling memoir, "Three Cups of Tea", one school at a time. And he still has more to build. Who says you need guns to fight the war on terror?
Persistence and a vision will help you overcome virtually all obstacles.
Keith
