Making Things Happen everyday

Cliff Young

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For years, running experts believed that the body needed a certain amount of sleep per night when running a grueling 100 miles per day. However, after falling so far behind on the first day of the race, Cliff awoke at 1:00 AM and started running throughout the night. He surpassed the leaders, who slept to the usual 5:00 AM. Cliff's strategy worked so well that he continued to wake and start running each morning four hours earlier than all of his competitors. As a result of using this bold racing strategy, he astonished the world by crossing the finish line in first place. After five days, 15 hours, and four minutes Cliff Young was the victor, at 61 years old!

Yes at 61 Years. Thought becomes Things. We have many stories around us. We have millions of them. However, almost all the time we relate this stories to luck, Right Time, Place of opportunity, Fraud, Cheating. Indirectly we all live by our own stories. Someone told me that human being cannot sleep at night until and unless they create a story. This is something like this. Let us suppose you are not happy with your job and it keeps you awake every night. You have option to change your Job, Talk to your Boss or start something on your own. However, you do something else. You go to bed every night and think on the same topic and create a story . All your stories are made from three elements or all your stories are of Three Types:

1. A Villain Story.
2. A victim Story.
3. A Helpless Story.

There is nothing beyond this. Everynight we create a story. We fall asleep only when the story is ready. If not we cannot sleep. All the above three stories are negative and we register these stories in our subconscious every night and guess what. In the morning we wake up with a story which is correct and has real element of the night and all those elements added by our subconscious during our sleep and we end of beleiving in the story and many of us are living with these stories for years. Here I would like to discuss something which I call the "TRUTH" and "THOUGHT" part of an individual. However, let me skip that for some other time and continue with today's topic. Yep we create stories all the time to hide our weakness and at times to hide our cowardness.

All other successful people also creates stories but positive one. For example all there Vilian stories are converted to Hero Stories and register a succesful story in their subconscious which would act immediately and draw energy to make things work for them, CLiff Young Did the same thing and the hero of my next story did the same thing. Lets read the next story now..


Like most other countries, Japan was hit badly by the Great Depression of the 1930s. In 1938, Soichiro Honda was still in school, when he started a little workshop, developing the concept of the piston ring.

His plan was to sell the idea to Toyota. He labored night and day, even slept in the workshop, always believing he could perfect his design and produce a worthy product. He was married by now, and pawned his wife's jewelry for working capital.

Finally, came the day he completed his piston ring and was able to take a working sample to Toyota, only to be told that the rings did not meet their standards! Soichiro went back to school and suffered ridicule when the engineers laughed at his design.

He refused to give up. Rather than focus on his failure, he continued working towards his goal. Then, after two more years of struggle and redesign, he won a contract with Toyota.

By now, the Japanese government was gearing up for war! With the contract in hand, Soichiro Honda needed to build a factory to supply Toyota, but building materials were in short supply. Still he would not quit! He invented a new concrete-making process that enabled him to build the factory.

With the factory now built, he was ready for production, but the factory was bombed twice and steel became unavailable, too. Was this the end of the road for Honda? No!

He started collecting surplus gasoline cans discarded by US fighters – "Gifts from President Truman," he called them, which became the new raw materials for his rebuilt manufacturing process. Finally, an earthquake destroyed the factory.

After the war, an extreme gasoline shortage forced people to walk or use bicycles. Honda built a tiny engine and attached it to his bicycle. His neighbors wanted one, and although he tried, materials could not be found and he was unable to supply the demand.

Was he ready to give up now? No! Soichiro Honda wrote to 18,000 bicycles shop owners and, in an inspiring letter, asked them to help him revitalize Japan. 5,000 responded and advanced him what little money they could to build his tiny bicycle engines. Unfortunately, the first models were too bulky to work well, so he continued to develop and adapt, until finally, the small engine 'The Super Cub' became a reality and was a success. With success in Japan, Honda began exporting his bicycle engines to Europe and America.

End of story? No! In the 1970s there was another gas shortage, this time in America and automotive fashion turned to small cars. Honda was quick to pick up on the trend. Experts now in small engine design, the company started making tiny cars, smaller than anyone had seen before, and rode another wave of success.

So what's your story for the day..

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