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    Seeds of Hope & Success: A Guide to Setting and Achieving Better Than Average Goals
    Seeds of Hope & Success: A Guide to Setting and Achieving Better Than Average Goals
    Seeds of Hope & Success: A Guide to Setting and Achieving Better Than Average Goals
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    Seeds of Hope & Success: A Guide to Setting and Achieving Better Than Average Goals

    By Jonathan McMillan

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    I can honestly say, and to many people’s surprise, that going to prison was one of the best things to happen to me. While separated from any opportunity to be productive or any possibility to contribute to my family, I began to really understand the cliche “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” I finally realized that the absence of any goals or direction or ambition in my life was what directly lead to me landing squarely on the shore of the Island of Failure.
    It was after this epiphany that I began to study respected names in personal development and success skills, like Napoleon Hill, Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, Les Brown, Tony Robbins and many more. I applied their lessons and saw immediate and long lasting changes in my life, including never returning to prison despite the high recidivism rate that plagues our country.
    In order to live a better than average life, it is important that you continually set significant goals.
    This book provides tried and true information why you should set goals and different tested and proven techniques how to set really effective goals. If you really want to become a better than average person who creates and lives a better than average life you will read, study and apply the lessons laid out in these pages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJonathan McMillan
    Release dateJan 14, 2015
    ISBN9781310760433
    Seeds of Hope & Success: A Guide to Setting and Achieving Better Than Average Goals

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      Seeds of Hope & Success - Jonathan McMillan

      Introduction

      For a good portion of my life I, like most everyone else, thought that people who were successful had either more skill, talent or luck than I did, and that’s what separated us. I was sure that there was a secret to being successful that I would never be fortunate enough to learn because of one reason or another. One of the main reasons was, I wasn’t expected to succeed.

      As a young black man coming of age in the late 80s and early 90s, I was told repeatedly that I was an endangered species. I was told that simply because I was a young black male, I was more likely to go to prison than college once I graduated (if I graduated) high school. I was told that because slavery tore apart black families hundreds of years ago my destiny was to be an irresponsible breeder, preemptively forgiven for the illegitimate children I would undoubtedly father someday. These messages were told to me and an entire generation of young black men over and over via our parents, schools, churches and well meaning community leaders. The music we listened to and the associated videos, as well as TV and movies painted a clear picture of what being a young black male in America looked like, i.e. angry, scared, paranoid, reckless, hopeless, violent, destructive, sexualized criminals. Being successful meant being a ball player or an entertainer of some sort. But the catch was, being successful in either of those fields was also against extreme odds and very unlikely.

      So by the time I was 25 years old, the only measure of success I had obtained was every benchmark that society defined as to what being the average young black male was. I was sitting in prison with at least one child, but possibly others, two felonies and no college degree. And all around me were other inmates who looked just like me -- young, black and male -- most of whom were also locked up for relatively minor crimes. Most were fairly educated and many grew up from the same middle class neighborhood that I grew up in or one very similar. And very few of us had much hope for the future.

      I can honestly say, and to many people’s surprise, that going to prison was one of the best things to happen to me. While separated from any opportunity to be productive or any possibility to contribute to my family, I began to really understand the cliche Failing to plan is planning to fail. I finally realized that the absence of any goals or direction or ambition in my life was what directly led to me landing squarely on the shore of the Island of Failure. 

      Sitting in prison, looking at the hundreds of guys just like me in the same situation, I began to contemplate the common factors that were leading us to self-destructing at such an alarming rate. Even our heroes were dead. Influential rappers Tupac 2Pac Shakur and Christopher Biggie Wallace had been murdered within the past three years. Both died violently before the age of 25, and both spoke prolifically and incessantly about death and dying young. It was then that I came to the realization that the statistics that were recited to us as good-intentioned cautionary tales had only served to lay out a roadmap for failure. Rather than motivate and encourage us to succeed, despite the odds, the doom and gloom stats destroyed any hope and ambition for a brighter future.

      It was then that I decided I would never again allow myself to be imprisoned. I was determined to never again neuter my potential or allow someone to define

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