Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

This morning, I'm going to tell you a real Cinderella story that will knock your socks off.

And this ain't no fairy tale.

It is a true story packed with lessons

on how you can triumph against Oz, rise from the ashes, and achieve mind-blowing success.

So you're ready to pay attention here because this could be a life-changer for you. Let me paint

you a picture. We've got two brothers. One is the golden boy, Tall, blonde, and charming. The other,

a scrawny, timid, chronically sickly little runt, with thick glasses and ears that stick out

like a taxi with its doors open. Guess which one, Daddy Dearest Favored. You got it. Golden Boy.

The other, despite his gender, was even named Cinderella.

Now, the boy's father wasn't just any Joe Schmo, he was the big man in town, the police

chief, no less.

And boy, did he have a mean streak.

He'd pit those two boys against each other in every sport imaginable.

Running, wrestling, boxing, you name it.

And when the little runt lost, which was pretty much always, dad would rub it in like salt

on a wound.

It gets worse.

After a few drinks, dad would come home raging that the little runt wasn't even his.

Can you imagine the poor kid was so terrified of his old man that by age 10 he wet himself at the sound of

his father's voice. So what did our little Cinderella do? He retreated into fantasy. He dreamed that one

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