T. Harv Eker recounts a period when four businesses failed within a year, leaving him broke and emotionally distraught. At his lowest point he vowed to a higher power that if he recovered he would teach others how to succeed; this promise now explains his mission to teach principles and strategies that helped him overcome failure.
Okay, so why do I do what I do, which is teaching and training? Simple. I know the pain of not being successful. I know the pain of what other people call failure. I know the pain of not being so excited for something to work and it doesn't work. I had four businesses. Listen to this. Four businesses in one year go down the tubes. And after the fourth one, I remember coming back to my parents condo because I was living there because I was broke again. And sitting outside in the law launch chair and looking up at the sky and literally tears were flowing down my face going, how could this happen to me again? What am I doing? I thought I had it this time. We've all been there, right? And I look at this guy and I took a deep breath and I just said, God or universe or whatever's up there, I promise, I promise you that if somehow I make it, I promise that I will help other people do the same. And. And whatever I did. And so that's exactly why I teach. Because I was very fortunate and very blessed to come up and find and create rationales and principles and strategies that finally worked. And so now what I do is I teach those to other people.
