Who do you think you are?

Are You Here To Be An Entrepreneur? 17
“Really, well who am I then?”
“Bob and Proctor are just two words,” he said. “That’s your name,
it’s not you.”
I pointed to my body, “Well, okay, this is me.”
“No, that’s not you,” he said. “That’s your body. You’ve never
heard anybody phone into work and say, ‘Body’s not coming in today;
it’s sick.’ ”
He really provoked me to think and it was possibly the first time
in my life I really did think. He changed my life.
His name was Ray Stanford and he was a very ordinary guy. He’s
gone now. When I met him, he was moving houses... literally, he’d put
them up on jacks and move them. He obviously saw something in me
that I couldn’t see in myself. He got me to sit down and really look at my
results.
He put an ‘R’ on a sheet of paper and he said, “That represents
results.” He put two ‘Hs’ and a ‘W’ beside it and said, “That’s happiness,
health and wealth.” Then he asked me if I thought he was a happy guy.
I said, “Yeah.” I hadn’t known him a long time, but he seemed
pretty happy to me.
“Have you ever seen me when I was sick?”
“Uh, no.”
“Have you ever seen me when I was broke?”
The guy always had money on him, so I said, “No.”
“Well,” he said, “you’ve got to be one of the most miserable
people I’ve ever met. You’re always broke, you’re always complaining
of a headache or backache or something. Why don’t you change?”
I was earning $4,000 a year at the time and I owed $6,000. I
could never see myself getting out of debt. I thought the only way to earn
money was on my job. I was working at the fire department in a suburb
of Toronto and I was stuck in a rut. I didn’t believe I could change, but he
did. The more he talked to me, the more I believed he believed I could
change, and I really believed in his belief in me. He got me to read Think
and Grow Rich and that’s when my whole world started to change. That
led me to Earl Nightingale’s condensed narration of it and my income
went up to $150,000 a year, then $175,000, then it went over a million.
I couldn’t figure out what was happening. I was doing the right
things but I didn’t know what I was doing. I wasn’t satisfied with the fact
I had changed. I wanted to know why. According to my understanding,
what was happening to me shouldn’t have happened. I hadn’t gone to
school and I had no business experience. I realized that a lot of the things