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I used to live next door to a teenager who was crazy about cricket. He would often play for our village team. One day I asked him what he planned to do when he left school. "I'm going to play cricket for England," he said without a moment's hesitation. I could not help but smile. There probably wasn't a boy his age in all of England then who didn't want to play cricket for his country!
I had the surprise of my life when, several years later, his father told us that Neil was indeed playing cricket for England; in fact, he was on a world tour at that very moment. Neil Fairbrother went on to win a place in the Guinness Book of Records. In May 1990 he made the highest score in cricket by an Englishman this century.
Elsewhere in Britain, 17-year-old David Chaplin was required to get in a week of real-life work experience as part of his schooling. He decided to write to NASA in the United States to ask to work on a space shuttle. The result was that they invited him over to spend some time with the scientists, as well as tour the space center.
Oprah Winfrey has risen from being a tragically abused little girl to being one of the richest and most famous women in America. In an interview, she said: "If you're in it to make money, forget it. I am where I am not because money was ever, has ever, will ever be my motivation. If you want to accomplish the goals of your life," she said, "seek what is honorable, what is good."
This principle, "seek what is good," points out the critical factor-paradoxically, one ignored by almost everyone-that should be utmost in any goal-setting program we would follow, regardless of the many other principles we should apply.
To illustrate what can happen without that principle foremost in mind, the following story shows the amazing life of one of the most accomplished individuals who ever lived, and why his life, in spite of great success, actually held great tragedy. His downfall was even more tragic because he was one of the few people who knew to live by the universal principles that guarantee real success.
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