PREFACE Without being able to put too fine point on it, I had felt for some time that my entire life was little more than a stage play in which I held the staring role. My life lacked any real sense that the people that I interacted with (including loved ones) knew or appreciated the true me, how could they, I wasn’t really certain that I knew myself. Working for over thirty five years as a career salesman, I had become so amerced in the role of Mr. PMA that I had grown very efficient at only showing the person I felt everyone wanted to see, playing out my well rehearsed role through a laborious façade. The challenge of breaking down that façade, made up of industrial strength ego and the heavily fortified defenses of self approval, was a task that no man (or woman) stood a chance of accomplishing. The trenches were dug deep, and with the help of Dale Carnegie, Zig Ziglar, Tony Robins and other influential role models, I felt quite comfortable hunkered down behind ramparts built on arrogant pride, indestructible ambition, and a highly coveted … Closing Ratio! Nevertheless, a breaking down was sorely needed if the humble man of God that resided within was ever to be born. AW Tozer; one of the many Saints that has helped me on my journey and is humbly quoted throughout this book, notes in The Root of Righteousness: “The devil, things and people being what they are, it is necessary for God to use the hammer, the file and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint …
Author: nettybet
Duration: 914
Published: 2010-12-05 07:07:41
Sanctification of a Salesman – Chapter One_Part Two
