What do you need to achieve everything you want? The point is that
everything would be (1) worthless if we had no self-confidence. WORTH
In a book (2) called “101 Ways to Get Self-confidence” there is a story CALL
which could teach us all an (3) impressive lesson. IMPRESS
It is about a businessman who started out with a (4) successful SUCCESS
company, but(5) unfortunately he went bankrupt soon. He said to FORTUNE
himself, “I don’t feel like I (6) really failed. I will manage to borrow REAL
some money to start a new business." But (7) creditors were closing CREDIT
in on him. So, one day he was sitting on the park bench, (8)depressed, DEPRESS
head in hands, wondering what to do.
(9) Suddenly an old man appeared before him. After listening to SUDDEN
the businessman’s (10) complaints, the old man said, “I believe I can COMPLAIN
help you.” He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, “Take this money. Meet me here (11) exactly one year EXACT
from today, and you can pay me back at that time.” Then he
turned and (12) disappeared as quickly as he had come. APPEARE
The businessman saw in his hand a check for $500,000, (13) signed SIGN
by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!
He decided to put the un-cashed check in his safe. Just knowing it
was there gave him the (14) strength to work out a way to save his STRONG
business. With renewed (15) optimism, he won many projects. Within OPTIMIST
a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.
A year later, he (16) returned to the park with the un-cashed check. TURN
At the (17) fixed time, the old man appeared. But just as the businessman FIX
was going to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man. “I hope he hasn’t been bothering you”, she said. “He’s always escaping from the old people’s house and telling people he’s
John D. Rockefeller. Sorry, he has Alzheimer’s disease.”
The businessman just stood there, (18) astonished and (19) struck. ASTONISH/STRIKE
All year long he had been buying and selling, (20)convinced he had CONVINCE
half a million dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve success.
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