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94 The Seven Lost Secrets of Success

Almost any business seems to be a good business if a man
gives it all he’s got.
“But the side line is the slide line.”

ACT BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE

This strategy also refers to your life.
It was the July 1, 1991, death of actor Michael Landon

that drove this point home for me. His sudden passing
made me aware that you have to do what you know to
do now—today—before it’s too late. Our time here is
limited. Landon was one of the most robust people I’ve
ever seen. He was strong and healthy and full of life. But
that didn’t make him immune to dying.

Bruce Barton’s life roared during the 1920s through
1950s. He was healthy and alive. But he lost a son, a
daughter, and a wife. He had a stroke. And by 1967, the
year of his death at age 80, illness had wiped out his
memory. Nearly helpless, he died alone except for a few
friends and relatives.

If Barton had not written the books he did, when he
did, our world would have suffered an incalculable loss. If
Michael Landon had not written and starred in the shows
he did, our lives would have a mysterious hole in them.

“Sharpening the knife” is a strategy that applies to
you personally. This book may have prompted some
ideas in you. Are you going to take action? Are you
going to do what you know to do?

If you knew your work would touch people in the
same way as the work of Bruce Barton or Michael
Landon, would you act today?