My friend Ward Hanigan wakes daily with a thankfulness for being alive. He is 75. His intention that he speaks to himself when he looks in the mirror each morning is to have fun. He is appreciative of life. He knows he has won the lottery. The sperm that was him beat out 200 million other sperm. He knows, he counted. 😉 You too, you reading this… you won your own lottery.
As a young boy, Ward spent time in an orphanage. He was smaller than most and learned to use his words and read people. None of that would have matter if not for one woman. One summer his aunt Mae pulled Ward and his older brother from the orphanage for a summer. Aunt Mae had a big yellow Car. No seat belts back then; Ward slid with the curves.
The biggest curve he got was his aunt’s words. She said to him “Ward, I am never going to worry about you again. You are going to be wealthy.” A little boy was speaking and an adult that mattered listened and shared. The gift of those words sunk into Ward’s life and he hit that curve ball out of the park. Making his fortune in real estate and extending it with his own brand of training. I have been in a room with over a dozen millionaires that Ward has trained. I have listened to how they credit him.
Ward is a voracious reader. He recalled reading a book about how just one person believing in a child can make the difference between life and death, misery and success. He immediately thought of the words of Aunt Mae.
Ward looked for a Hero to mimic. The hero he found was in the auto-biography of Benjamin Franklin. Franklin had bad habits like talking too much so Franklin changed them. Ward followed. Ward studied his good and bad habits throughout his life and knew he had the power to create new habits to replace the old ones.
Ward learned how to break success down into small steps and he made the habit of stepping toward success daily.
With the power to create your own habits, you can create your own life.
Remember you have won the lottery of life. You can change anytime. Baby steps. Wake up! Have Fun!
My friend Ward is an amazing man that has a passion to live and share. Here I share a small bite of his wisdom with you.
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