Principle #6

Neil Rudenstein

Where you start is

not as important as

where you finish.

Just in case you have even of a trace of PLOM ("poor little old me") disease and are saying,"But,G, you don't understand about my past," I've got a better idea for you. Instead of explaining why it won't work for you, let me tell you how it worked for others.

A study of three hundred world-class leaders, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sir Winston Churchill, Clara Barton, Helen Keller, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Dr. Albert Schweitzger, and Martin Luther king, Jr., revealed that 25 percent of them had serious physical disabilities and an additional 50 percent had been abused as children or were raised in poverty.

The world-class leaders responded (positive) instead of reacted (negative) to what happened to them. Remember, it's not what happens to you; it's how you handle what happens to you that's going to make a difference in your life.

Neil Rudenstein's father was a prison guard and his mother a part-time waitress. Today , Dr. Neil Rudenstein is president of Harvard University. He says he learned very early in life that there is a direct correlation between performance and reward.Rudenstein and the three hundred world-class leaders personally learned that it's not where you start- its where you finish- that counts.

In all things God works for

the good of those who love

him, who have been called

according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28