Association

I spent a lot of time in bad company;

I thought it was with friends, but they were robbing me;

By choice so many times I let them, steal my day;

I was robbing them too, in exactly the same way;

As I’ve grown older with the passage of time;

And the ladder of success, I started to climb;

And oh how I wanted my friends to go;

In the midst of their comfort, to life they said no;

I started reading books, I found myself inside the zone;

Anything worthwhile is never accomplished alone;

This statement spoke volumes and resonated in my head;

For in order to lead, you must first be led;

With the law of association at the forefront of my mind,

My past associations, I had to leave them all behind;

To seek out those that shared my desire;

For achievement in life that was several levels higher;

For life is lived on level and arrived at in stages;

A simple fact that I learned, cause I kept turning pages;

As I write these words, to the past that I look;

My very first mentor was in the form of a book;

His name is David Schwartz and doctor is his gig;

He spoke to me through the pages of, The Magic of Thinking Big.

R Louis Hill