Men Of Honor

Men Of Honor

Oct 09, 2007

As I was flipping through the channels a great movie thatI hadn't seen in a while came on - "Men of Honor" starringRobert Di Nero and Cuba Gooding Jr.

The plot goes . .

Cuba is a African American US navy cook whose life dream isto become a navy diver in a time when there were no nonwhite navy divers.Robert Di Nero is navy master diver who is demoted to drillsergeant because of a violent incident he brought on.(Details not necessary)

Well Cuba's character, after getting into the navy divingprogram is assigned to Robert De Niro as his drill sergeant.Do to his racism and heat up the line of command, De Niromakes in infinitely tougher on Cuba to get through theprogram than his white classmates.But because Cuba's drive to achieve his end is no less thanconcrete, he doesn't miss a step no matter what his drillsergeant throws at him.

In a key seen, De Niro tells Cuba to "Go home Cookie." When Cuba doesn't back down De Niro ask him "Why won't youquit!"

Cuba answers "I'll never give up!"(Of course, I'm paraphrasing all this.)

Well it comes down the last day of training for the new navydiver hopefuls and they are giving as a final exam the taskof putting together a series of tubes in the frigid darkdeep waters around their training ground.The men are sent down and then so are the pieces of tubing,screws and tools in a separate bag.Well, when it came Cuba's turn Di Nero cut the bag open sothe pieces of the tubing would be scattered around the seabottom.

As you can imagine all the other navy diver hopefulsfinished within hours of getting their bags of tools andtubing while Cuba was left at the bottom searching the seafloor in the cold darkness of night to find his piece andassemble his project.

At any point Cuba's character could have quit and come up,but he didn't.His dream was to be a navy diver and that was what he wasgoing to be.After over 9 hours and almost succumbing to severhypothermia he assembled the tubing right before beingyanked out of the water unwillingly.Nothing and no one could stop him from achieving his goaleven if it meant he might die in the process.This was an extremely powerful and inspiring lesson to watchon a Sunday night before going back to work.Cuba's desire to become a navy diver in the movie meant morehim than his life. With that sort of drive there is no way he could have failedshort of dying.

He overcame every obstacle because it was inconsequential tohis goal.

So I ask you . . .What does your time freedom mean to you?

How willing are you to pay the necessary price to grow the huge network marketing organization you dream of?

What if it takes you 5 years to get to the point in yourbusiness that you want to to live the life you dream?Will you be there?If your DREAM is big enough I guar antee you'll be therestill pushing no matter how dark or frigid things get.

Make sure your why is big enough and there is nothing inthis world that can stop you.

Cheers
Ankur Agarwal
MLM Marketing Consultant
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