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Here's your success mentor, Darin Hardy.

There is one attribute that can help you overcome even the most disastrous of circumstances.

What is that one attribute?

Well, here's a story that reveals it.

A once successful business owner found himself in deep debt and could see no way out.

The creditors were closing in on him and his key suppliers were demanding payment immediately

or they were going to cut him off, which would shudder his business, desperate and distraught.

He found himself sitting on a park bench, fretting about his situation, trying to think

of what to do to save his company from impending bankruptcy.

Just then, an old man walked up and sat down next to him on the bench.

The old man said, I could see something is troubling you son.

What is it?

After listening to the business owner's woes, the old man said, I believe I can help you.

He asked the man, his name and he wrote out a check and he pushed it into his hand saying

take this money and meet me back here a year from today and you can pay me back at that

time.

Then the old man turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

The business owner looked down to see that his check in his hand was for $500,000 signed

by John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest men in the world at the time.

The business owner thought, all the money worries have been erased in an instant.

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