How to Stay Focused on Success When Everything Around You is Screaming Failure
because they didn’t have the money to pay for heat. Sly and his wife would get into these vicious fights. His marriage was slowly falling apart. So one day he went to the public library (only because it was warm inside). Someone had left a book on the table by Edgar Allen Poe. So Sly began to read all about Poe’s life and what he got out of that was he learned how to get out of himself and give to others. That’s kind of why so many marketers fail. Instead of giving and providing things of great value to others, they are always wondering “what’s in this for me.” Well, getting back to the story.
Sly began trying to write a bunch of screenplays. Yet even with this new direction, he began to run into the same brick walls. Nothing was working, nobody was buying his stuff, until finally, one day, he sold a script he called “Paradise Alley” (which he starred
