soul log

“You must remember,” my mother told me yesterday before dinner, “that all sales begin with a no. Every single person on this planet doesn’t like being solicited for money. It’s your job to turn their no into a yes.”

Having experienced first-hand that day exactly what my mother was talking about, I could agree. Although I was raising money for a charity, it was nonetheless soliciting for money. Almost no one likes to give away money.

Perhaps it is my luck I have been gifted with the opportunity to attempt to find sponsors for a school-related project a team and I have been working on so feverishly. It is crucial that sponsors be found.

It is a terrific thing, I believe, to be able to experience failure. My father oft tells me that a man is not complete without failure. It takes a true man to be able to understand the faults of themselves, acknowledge them, and move on. Not recognizing them is fatal, and it is best to make mistakes young.

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