Law of Success (21st Century Edition)

162 THE PRINCIPLES OF SELF-MASTERY

All great leaders base their Leadership on a Definite Chief Aim.
Followers are willing followers when they know their leader is a person
with a Definite Chief Aim who has the courage to back up that purpose
with action. Even a balky horse knows when a driver with a Definite Chief
Aim takes hold of the reins, and it yields to that driver. When a person
with a Definite Chief Aim starts through a crowd, everybody stands aside
and makes way for them. But let that person hesitate and show by their
actions that they are not sure which way they want to go, and the crowd
will step all over their toes and refuse to budge an inch out of the way.
Nowhere is the lack of a Definite Chief Aim more noticeable or
more detrimental than it is in the relationship between parent and child.
Children sense very quickly the wavering attitude of their parents and
they will take advantage of that attitude quite freely. It is the same all
through life-those with a Definite Chief Aim command respect and
attention at all times.

COMMENTARY

In 1990 Douglas Grant was paralyzed in an accident that left him in a wheelchair.

But instead of deciding that his life was over, Grant embarked on the pursuit of a

Definite Chief Aim. His father had told him he would never walk again unless he

had a vision in life. Grant's vision was not just to walk, but to win a gold medal as

a weightlifter. "I decided I would make it happen, " he says. He created his own

strategy for rehabilitation and it started to restore his mobility. By 1993 he was

not only walking but he had also won the World Championships of Powerlifting

-getting that gold medal he had dreamed of.

Grant's battle to restore his strength had also excited his interest in nutrition.

He created a Master Mind with a leading authority on enzymes, and developed an

enzyme-activated nutritional system called Infinity2. The program is now used by

such professional teams as the New York Yankees and the Houston Rockets, and

Grant's company is doing millions of dollars of business each year.