ARTICLE: Hitler Nearly Died In World War I: Meet The Man Who Almost Killed Him by Warfare History Network

Private Henry Tandey had a clear shot at the German soldier. He was so close that he could look his enemy in the eyes. Tandey could not have missed. But the man was wounded; one account of that far away day in 1918 says that the German was lying bleeding on the ground. In any case, the German soldier made no move to resist; he simply stared at the Englishman. Tandey eased off the trigger of his Enfield and did not fire. “I took aim,” said Tandey later, “but couldn’t shoot a wounded man. So I let him go.”

Maybe he shouldn’t have.

The German soldier went on his way, and Tandey went his. No doubt the Englishman forgot all about the man he had spared, because Tandey still had a war to fight. And not long afterward, Tandey got the welcome news that he had been awarded his nation’s highest medal for gallantry, the Victoria Cross (VC). He would receive his cross at Buckingham Palace in December 1919, at the hands of King George V himself.

Tandey won the VC near a French town called Marcoing, which lay about seven kilometers southwest of Cambrai, on September 28, 1918. In ferocious fighting later the same day, Tandey and eight other men were cut off behind German lines. Vastly outnumbered, Tandey still led his handful in a wild bayonet charge that smashed into the Germans and drove them back against the rest of Tandey’s unit, which took 37 prisoners. Wounded twice, Tandey went on to lead his men in a search of dugouts, winkling out and capturing more than 20 additional Germans. Only then would Tandey stand down and get his wounds dressed. Badly hurt, for the third time in the war, he was on his way to a hospital in England.

Tandey was born in 1891, in Leamington, Warwickshire. The son of a stonemason who had also soldiered for Britain, he became a professional soldier, a tough, long-service infantryman who survived four years of bitter war in Belgium and France. Nicknamed “Napper,” Tandey was not a large man, standing less than five feet, six inches, and weighing just under 120 pounds. But what he lacked in stature, Napper Tandey made up in grit and high courage.

Back in 1910, he had enlisted in Alexandra, Princess of Wale’s Own Yorkshire Regiment, commonly known as the Green Howards. Beginning life as the 19th Regiment of Foot, the Green Howards were a famous outfit named for the color of their uniform facings and the name of their first colonel. It distinguished them from another famous regiment commanded by a different Howard, which wore buff-colored facings. During the war, that regiment would win its own fame simply as the Buffs, the East Kent Regiment.

Tandey had served with the 2nd Battalion of the Green Howards in South Africa and on the island of Guernsey before the war. He was a tough, able soldier, and by the time of his exploit at Marcoing he had already been five times “mentioned in despatches,” a peculiarly British means of honoring high achievement under fire. He had also won the Distinguished Conduct Medal while commanding a bombing party. On that occasion, he rushed a German post with just two soldiers to help him, killing several of the enemy and capturing 20 more.

Tandey also held the Military Medal for heroism under fire. This decoration he won at a place called Havricourt in the fall of 1918, where he carried a wounded man to safety under heavy fire and organized a party to bring in still more wounded. Then, again in command of a bombing party, he met and broke a strong German attack, driving the enemy back, as his citation read, “in confusion.”

He had been wounded on the bloody Somme in 1916 and shipped back to England to recover. Once on his feet again, he joined the 9th Battalion of the Green Howards, with which he was again shot up at Passchendaele in the fall of 1917. After some time in the hospital in England, it was back to France, this time with the 12th Battalion of the regiment. When the 12th Battalion was disbanded in July 1918, Tandey was attached to the 5th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, and it was with this outfit that he won his VC.

After the war, Tandey soldiered on with the 2nd Battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s, serving in Gibraltar, Turkey, and Egypt. In 1920 he was one of 50 VC holders who served as a guard of honor inside Westminster Abbey during the ceremonial burial of Britain’s Unknown Soldier.

In January 1926, he was discharged as a sergeant, at that time the most heavily decorated enlisted man in the British Army. He spent the next 38 years in his home town of Leamington, where he married and worked as a “commissionaire” or security man for Standard Motor Company. A modest, quiet man, he talked little about the war.

TANDEY’S WAR NOT YET OVER

With his fighting days well behind him, Tandey’s war should have been over. But it wasn’t. About the time of the award of his VC, a painting appeared, a graphic image of war by Italian artist and illustrator Fortunino Matania. Matania had included Tandey in his painting of soldiers at the Menin Cross Roads in 1914, not far from the battered Flemish town of Ypres. Tandey is facing the viewer, carrying a wounded soldier on his back, and the painting also shows other men of the Green Howards and a wounded German prisoner.

Matania’s vivid painting became something far more than a picture, all because of the man who acquired a copy of it. For in 1938, then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made his futile attempt to guarantee “peace in our time.” Flying to Germany to meet Hitler in the Alps, he was entertained at the Eagle’s Nest, perched on the Kehlstein Rock high above the town of Berchtesgaden. And there, displayed on a wall of that ostentatious aerie, was a copy of Matania’s painting. It was a curious choice of art for Hitler since it showed only British troops, but Hitler soon explained.

Hitler pointed to Tandey, commenting to Chamberlain, “That man came so near to killing me that I thought I should never see Germany again, providence saved me from such devilishly accurate fire as those English boys were aiming at us.”

Then Hitler went a step further. I want you to pass on my best wishes and thanks to the soldier in that painting, he said, and Chamberlain replied that he would contact the man when he returned to England. The prime minster was as good as his word. Only then did Tandey find out that the pitiful wounded man he had spared, the bedraggled German corporal in the Bavarian 16th Reserve Infantry Regiment, was now the chancellor of Germany, on his way to becoming the ogre of Europe.

Tandey’s relatives remembered the telephone call from Chamberlain. When Tandey returned from talking to the prime minister, he related the tale of Chamberlain seeing the painting. The prime minister told him, he said, that Hitler had pointed to Tandey’s picture and said, “That’s the man who nearly shot me.”

This article first appeared at the Warfare History Network.

PERSONAL: GREETING TO YOU

Greetings to you,  

Will your eyes invite me to your heart? I have seen your add and I think that you are a very interesting person. So, I decided to use the chance to get to know you. Hope I will be lucky:-) I don't know if you answer me or not. But why not to try? I will regret if not to try. I think we should use every chance to find our happiness.The essence of profile compels me to ponder what is it you seek, and why? Perhaps you may grace me with your answer? Helplessly, I find myself wishing to offer you some insight about who I am. My entire life I've longed and wished for the woman of my dreams to walk into my life and give me the gift of loving them. You know the feeling, when you're happy with the material things you have, happy with the friends and social life you lead, happy with your job, and just happy with your life in general. But you feel like something is missing? Something that could complete and concrete your happiness? Bumping into someone that you dig mentally AND physically just doesn't happen too often. Especially when you're a little tired of the bar scene. In brief...I like to think I'm a handsome well-rounded person.  In a perfect world I'd be dating a woman that possesses looks AND personality. I have to admit - that personality accounts for perhaps more than half the equation, I'm interested in someone genuine and FUN w substance and integrity who I can have an intelligent conversation   I am a man who want a loving, committed relationship. I seek someone who is emotionally generous- someone who gives freely their love, their praise, their affection and their appreciation's. 

 Dear fellow searcher,  

I am sure one night you sat down one night at your computer, and said to yourself "I'm tired of the dating game and you put up your ad. Just based upond your ad and your picture I am sure you are getting TONS of responses. I am sure it has become a bit frustrating responding to so many e-mails or just deleting them. So I ask how can I make mine email stand out above the rest? It is my words against all the other responses, against all your past aches and broken hearts.It my words against all the other men who are bidding for your heart. Will you trust me? Will you pick me out of the sea of response. It not only that you will find what you heart has been seeking but for me to also find that person who was meant for me. I find myself becoming hopeful,perhaps too hopeful; that my words are being read by the one I've been seeking. And that you will see how truly sincere I really am . And this makes me both nervous and ecstatic at the sametime. Is it possible that through our thoughts and feelings on this screen, we will know each other? I it possible that the decision for you to place your ad, and and my decision to respond was what suppose to happen for us to finally met? 

  

 I decided to write a long email so you can get a sense of who I am. I suggest you grab some coffee and take a seat and read this with an open heart.  I feel as though there is a purpose for all of the people who come into our lives. Perhaps it is through the "wrong ones" that we will know the "right one" and honestly cherish them. I've been single for while now and I 'm not really not looking for a fling or just-for-fun relationship. I have reached a point where I know I want to be married someday. I have had many friends, associates and family members who attempt to "set me up" on a "blind date" or "to meet someone" simply because of her profession or something similar. And everyone claims that I'm "letting good women" get away because I'm "so picky." Which is not true. People constant ask me, "You are such a good catch, why are you single?” I tell them that the problem is not finding a woman, but "the right one". I am just not willing to accept a lower standard of love for the rest of my life. I did that in the past and I will not anymore. Everything else I can comprise with, but not the love. Over the years, I had several girlfriends, though none turned into a wife. They honestly didn't treat me the way I was treating them. You may be asking what is it that I am really looking for?. I'm looking for the substance of love--for kindness, compassion, deep caring, listening heart, connecting, joy, generosity, harmony, spirituality, and for someone who has the capacity to love me as much as I can love her.  

PERSONAL: MISSION STATEMENT

MISSION STATEMENT:

             My mission is to live with integrity and dignity (self-respect). To be honest, kind and considerate to myself first and then to others. I will not be my worst enemy and blame myself and put myself down. I will not live the script of other---I AM SOMEONE…..I DO COUNT. I was hypnotized by ideas that I accepted by others about who I am.  I am more than what they labeled me. I am my own person. I will not live in the past and be conditioned by the past. I will be “SELF-AWARE” (Stand apart and examine my thought process and examine the way I see myself.) I know that I am free to choose my actions and that no one can force me to do anything. I will exercise my right to choose. It was my programming that has created my choices in the pass and it will not be like that anymore. Unless I think, clearly, and consciously about each and every choice. I make, my choice will always be made by someone else or by the programs that I carry with me in my subconscious mind. It would be like I am in an airplane on automatic pilot …hoping that the program controlling the computer which drive the automatic pilot are the right programs. There are no failures in this life----only outcome or result. And I will learn from all my outcome. The consequences of my judgment will be in harmony with my value system.

             1-Health/Vitality (Mental and Physical)

             2-Making a Difference

             3-Learning and Growing

             4-Love

             5-Money

GOALS:

1-Health: energy…vitality

  a)eating more

               b)exercise

               c)weight powder

               d)vitamins

              

2-Spiritual Unity: peace ...oneness…..love

             a)pray more

             b)mediation

3-Getting my own place: feeling of freedom ...independence…growing up……

             a)save money

             b)start looking a loans

4-passing my board: end my worries for jobs

             a)start looking for address

             b)get cases ready

5-finish my teleplay: a sense of achievement…..a vehicle of stardom ...extra income

6-Starting a Company on the internet

             a)SBA

             b)write a business plan

 WEEKLY  WORKSHEET:

AFFIRMATION STATEMENT:IT IS A DEEP SENSE OF HAPPINESS & WARMTH THAT I WORK WITH PATIENCE,SELF-DISCIPLINE,MOTIVATION & CONFIDENCE IN MY JOBS AS A DOCTOR,WRITER, BOYFRIEND,AND BODYBUILDER.

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ROLES:                                                         GOALS:

1-individual                                                  -go to the gym

                                                                         -listen to tapes

                                                             -gain weight with powder

2-Son                                                         -take mom out

                                                                         -Do garbage

3-Brother                                                       -Be there for her

4-Doctor                                                        -study for boards

                                                                             -Look for new jobs

 5-Writer                                                        -Write everyday

                                                                         -carry tape recorder or paper

                                                                         -Write notes about your dreams

6-BoyFriend                                                

7-Friend                                                             -Write letter

                                             -get together with friend

                                                                         -call up friends

                                     

LIFE THROUGH MY EYES

   Everyone sees life in a different way.Life consist of the period when we are born to the period when we die. And all of us during this duration seek to find some meaning for this trip. Why am I here?

   I have searched in books in people and in myself for my meaning in life and I haven't found it. I am looking for some knowledge or information that would give me some answers to my question of what life is all about. Are we all here to just suffer and learn? Are we all here to place some part in someone else's life? Are we just to be here.

   You could work hard all your life and yet never achieve the things you really wanted to achieve. So many of us take jobs we hate, stay in relationships that are going nowhere. And we feel that we are stuck, there are no other option to take that can get us out. We feel cursed and sad. Many of us are sad and depressed on how we turned out. It is a sad thing to realize that your dreams will never come true, it kills something inside of us.

   I am writing this book in a hope to understanding  myself. I am not in good terms with myself. In fact, I sometimes hate the person I am. It seems I take things so personal, if something fails in my life I usually blame myself for the situation. I am indeed my worst enemy.

   In my search I have found that there are certain beliefs that we tell yourself over and over again about things that make us unhappy. The goal of life is to have as many happy moments we can for the longest period of time. The following are some belief that I had about life in my search for the reason why I was so unhappy. I hope they will bring you some insight to your life as it did for me.

Chapter 1- EVERYBODY HAS PROBLEM

   Where do we begin? Let us start at the beginning. You and I came about out of a union between a sperm and an egg. These two special cells unites and divides and keep on dividing for the rest of the cells' life. You started off as a period on that sentence you just finished reading. That union made you. Think about it! A small cell that develops into a human being capable of thinking, talking, loving, almost able to do almost anything. Sit outside in a park one day and just watch people. They come in all shapes and all color and all different backgrounds. Each of them have their own life to deal with.So we all started out the same, so then what happen?

   Life happens. Life is hard. Life is hard for everyone. It does matter who you are, where you are from, or how much money you have. Life hits all of us. I used to believe that I was the only person who has a problem. Listen to me. Everyone has problems. Don't be misled and believe that the guy next to who or the beautiful women you see on the street or the rich billionaire you see on television has no problem.

That there life is all roses. Let me tell you a secret--They have problems too, they suffer too, they cry too. Realize that you are not alone. The only people who don't have problems are the people who have died. The reason that you don't see it is that people do hide there problem from others. Everyone has their own problems and they don't want to hear your problems. Try it. Talk about how bad life is and the problem you have and you will see how quickly people will leave you alone.

   The degree of suffering a person has depends upon his or her life. Some people are lucky enough to be born in the United States,into an affluent family,go to the best college and have a head start in life. A large number aren't so lucky. They fell into a third world country, hoping just to find enough food for the day. Life isn't fair. A lot of life depends upon luck, or what some people call destiny.

   The first truth about life is:

         EVERYBODY HAS PROBLEM!!!EVERYBODY

             

   There is no perfect life. There is no perfect job. There is no perfect woman or man. No one is perfect. Keeping reminding yourself over and over again or this. Don't be influenced by T.V., mazingine, or anything related to the media. The media is not really.....the media is a world where everyone is beautiful, very one lives in a huge apartment or house, everybody wears different clothes everyday, everyone's life is exciting....and everything ends happily ever after. The real world is not like that.  Not everyone goes out every night...not everyone has a different wardrobe for everyday of the year, and not everyone's life is exciting.....life is not like a soap opera. You have to wake up and smell the coffee. Accept life for what is it-----NOT

PERFECT. Stop denying your problem and wishing them to go away. They will not. Usually Problem will never go away unless you to deal with them. In reality...there are no problem in this life ....problem are crack in the path of life that gives us an opportunity to change. We are all pleasure and pain seeking animal. We run away from pain and move toward pleasure. If we didn't have a problem....how many would change our behavior.....not a lot. Most of us don't have the disciple to change our behavior internally. We need something external. We need something outside of yourself to punish us to wake us up and move us to a new direction. We are truly like Pavlov dogs.

   The knowledge that everybody has problems should make you feel that you are not alone. The person next to you have problem also. This should make you realize that there is nothing wrong with....it is OK to have problems and it is OK to not be perfect.

   The truth about the problem is that the farther in life you go the more problems you have. I know from my own experience. The more responsibility you have, the more problems you will have. This is a direct proportion. The more money you make, the further in the ladder of success you go...you will realize that more people will depend upon you, more thing has to be done, and more problems you will have. There is such a myth out there that the more success you have the less

problem you have.....don't believe that. It is not true.

If you want to be a success, you have to get ready to deal with more responsibility with your new position. You have to deal with problems.

_CHAPTER 2-STOP DEMANDING THAT YOU GET EVERYTHING THAT YOU

                                 WANT

   One of the first things we must get used to in this life is the concept that we will not get everything we want we want. You have to stop wishing things were different, stop wanting things to be different, and deal with the hand that was given. This is an easy concept to understand,but a hard concept to follow.

   I really wish that we live in a world where if you are a good person and live by the rule, that life will treat you fair. Some people believe that since they are so good, then life should be good to them. And that just isn't so. People insist that events and people should treat them fair. Our compassion should be returned with generosity. We get upset and depressed and even angry when we don't get our way when things don't go our way. The question to ask is why should it? What makes you so special that other people that the world must do what you ask for. Are you God? Nobody gets everything they want out of life...nobody.

   You have to learn and constantly remind yourself that this is the type of world that we live in. Your kindness, goodheartness, and clean living will not be interchange for kindness, success, and a problem free life.

   This is a hard belief to break,because we have been conditioned by our parents that if we act a certain way or be a certain way....we will be rewarded with what we desire. This is just not so.

   We all want things to go our way. I wish i had a billion dollars, i wish i was more handsome, I will my body was more build-up, i wish i was more intelligent, i wish i was Bill Gate and have his power and wealth. I wish I could see the world. I could go on and on with my wish list. The wish list is infinite as my imagination is. The question to ask is will i get my way....Will I get everything I ever wanted?---The answer is no. Of all the things I want out of life....I will be lucky if i get a small fraction of it.

So...does that mean that I should be angry, I should be depressed, and cry out to the world--"This is unfair....I deserve to get everything." How stupid does this sound...who do i think i am God. I am not God. And I must face the fact that in this life....i will not get everything that I want.

I must grow up and stop acting like a baby and get angry or depressed when I don't get what I want. Stop believing that it is terrible to not to get everything you want. Stop Demanding life to be a certain way, stop going against the tide of life...but go with it.

   Life is unfair. You can't predict what will happen to you. Accept this. Life usually doesn't go the way you plan it sometime. Out of the blue something can come up that you have no control and can make you hurt. Or the opposite can happen also, something can pop up that can change your whole life for example like falling in love. The only thing that you can do is to do your best.

   It sometimes surprises me that many people get upset when life does follow the way they have planned things to happen.

Just because you are who you are doesn't mean that things must fall into place for you. That you deserve things to go your way. All you pain and hard work must mean something. You are not God, and you are not different from everybody else on this planet. Just because you wish or want something, doesn't necessarily mean that you should have it right now. Everything in life has a price tag. Nothing, and I mean Nothing comes for free that is worth having. You have to start growing up. There is no mother or father there that when you want something will just come over and give you what you want. We sometimes regress to our childhood behavior and it is not good for us.

   Do you want to know what suffering is? Why do people feel so much despair and pain and hopelessness. Suffering comes in when you resist reality. When you resist life. You have a picture or belief in your mind of how life should be and when that collide with reality, you will suffer. You will feel pain. Your girlfriend left you for another man and you want her here. You lost your job and you believe that you not have been fired, that you desire to be working.  All of suffering is due to Denies.

   Life is suffering is one of the first noble truth in the Buddhist religion. There is no getting away from this.A parent may try to protect the child from suffering, but he or she will eventually deal with suffering and disappointment. To Deal with life is to deal with suffering.

   There is a more important purpose of suffering. Suffering is here to make us learn about life. Let's face it, most of us are security bond. We hate change. If bad things didn't happen to us we would not change. What I mean about change is that suffering makes us think about our life, our existence, makes us ask ourselves -why is this happening to me? What can I do about it? The pain makes us change our behavior. The pain makes us see the world differently. the pain makes us question our values. Every turning point in our life is a question of making a decision based upon our values. Should I stay and give this relationship I have a change to really growth or should I take that new job in Boston which will open doors for me in my career later on?

This simple question is a test of our values and it is a painful decision to make because if you accept one you will lose the other. And both items are dear to our hearts. What would you do? Do you value security over love or do you value love over security? Not easy is it. Whatever decision you make it makes a statement about you and it forces you to learn something about yourself.

   All suffering is learning. Things happen to you,suffering happens to you for you to learn something about yourself or others or just life in general. There is meaning in every suffering. You have to look deep and hard for it. Sometimes we don't understand why things happen to us until months or years later. Think about it, haven't you look back in your life and realize the suffering you experience wasn't so bad and if you didn't go through the circumstance you had to go through, you would be where you are now.

   The law of change is a law that states nothing ever remains the same. We can take this in a good way or bad way.

As a human being, we have a bad habit of being comfortable. We pay it save most of your lives. We don't like risk because it takes us pass the safety ozone that we all of us have. People find comfort in their lives, they hate change. Any change is taken as a threat of one's inner self. The law of change means nothing ever stays the same.

   The suffering you have now will not last forever. The unemployment you are experience will not last forever. The broken heart you have will heal. Nothing last forever. We must also look at the flip side of this because there are always two sides to everything. The happiness you have now will not be the same, something in your life will make it not as happy as it is now. The car you drive, the clothes you were, the life you lead will not be there forever. One of the great equals of life is death. You will not live forever. This statement is so ever important. It means your life here on earth is limited. You only have a limited time to do all the things you ever want to do.  My friends, your time here is short as is mine. A lot of time we forget this, we think we have all the time in the world and we really don't. We don't do the things we think we should do because we think that there is always time. don't fool yourself in saying that to yourself. Time is so precious and we will talk about this in later chapter.

   My friend, don't be surprise of failure and suffering. It is surprising how people can't believe that  things happen to them, when things don't go the way you want. Expect disappointment in your life. And you many say to yourself many excuses why failure shouldn't happen to you.

Don't think that you are some special being or that because the things you have gone through in your past gives you the right of having an easy life.  Remember rule one--Life is unfair.

   Without this law of change we human beings will not grow. Without suffering forcing us to grow, we wouldn't.

Think about it, when things are going great and everything is going according to plan,would you want to change anything including yourself in a fear that what you any changes you make will lead you to the path of failure. When you are happy, you will not force yourself to change because  you have no reason to.

   B.F. Skinner's experiments in operant conditioning  with rats explains that without a pain stimulus or a pleasure stimulus we are not motivated in learning anything.  Skinner's experiment, or sometimes called "Skinner's Box consist of the following:

   In this box was a hungry rat. Inside the box was a bar with a food dish beneath ti. everytime the rat pulls the bar it get food. The food is used to reinforce the bar-pressing.

   The rats learns that when it is hungry that by pressing in the bar it will get food. But this also work the other way, if for example by pressing the bar it don't get the food but a small electric shock, what do you think the chances are for the rat to learn or associate the bar to pain and hence keep away from it.

   In operant conditioning, the animal is the one which gives itself a stimulus to reward or punish for the response afterward. In life, it is pleasure or pain that comes upon us that makes us grow and learn and motives us to action.

We anything for two reasons. Discomfort and gratification are our motivating force in our personality. Each of us have different degrees of each. We all have different pain threshold and pleasure threshold. It is different for everyone. What may be pleasure for someone may be punishment for another.

_CHAPTER 3-SETTING GOALS

   Things will happen to you that you have no control over. Does that mean that you should just accept things as they are and just suffer? Of course not, If that is to be true that no one would be happy. Are we not the masters of our fate? The answer to that question is a yes & no response. Let me explain.

   I believe in the lack/self-determination ratio. This ratio is always changing...never remains the same. Most of the time the ratio is like this:

               70%------self-determination

               30%------luck

   That means that in an average day...you control about 70% of what happens to you. 30% of the things that happens you have no control at all----it could be bad luck or it could be good luck. Remember this also this ration can change with a drop of a hat. The ration can change to:

               80%-----luck

               20%-----self-determination.

   Beware of the luck factor in your life. recognize it, acknowledge it and thank god for it. Don't focus your mind on just one of these items...recognize both. Know the distinction between planning and luck.

LADY LUCKY

   In life situation....luck has an influence in your life that most want to believe. Don't ever be secure with life my friend...don't ever feel comfortable. The luck factor can make you or break you without warning.

   You have to ignore what you have been taught as a child when things don't go your way....you ascribes failure as something you did or failed to do. It wasn't all your fault, don't let disappointment get you down and depressed.

Don't get discouraged and believe that there is something wrong with you, there is nothing wrong with you.

   Some of you many believe that there is a black cloud over your head and everything you touch or get near to just

fail or that nothing you do ever turn out right. What you are experiencing is a bad luck run. Just like all lucky streaks do come to an end, so does bad luck streak. You have to just wait it out. I know it is a hard thing to believe. When i finish medical school... I didn't have a job set out once i finished my residency. I was out of work for over one year. I was so mad at myself that i didn't know that the medical field would make just a dramatic transformation from private practice to HMO facility. I kept saying " Should have known...i should have been prepared" but I wasn't. I blame myself where I should have blamed luck. I got into the medical field at the wrong time in life. Something i had no control off.

   So you see even the best made plans can fail with a little bad luck. The randomness of luck can change your life forever. You are at the mercy of randomness. So the thing to do is to arrange yourself with good luck and avoid the bad.

   We must first begin with what luck is.

Luck is being at the right place at the right time. The key word is right place and right time. You have to position yourself at the right place. The right place meaning it the place where everything happen. Just like the lottery, you have to be it to win it. You have to be in an atmosphere where a lot to action or things happening. You can expect luck to find you if you stay at home and never go out. Thing don't happen when you just stay home....in fact nothing happen when you just stay home. You have to get involved with the outside world, get involved with committee and parties, any group that is somehow related to what you desire in life. This is important because most of the good luck that occurs to people occur through networking...with contact with other people. This doesn't mean that you have to be their best friend....you have to be a quotient. Breaks and luck occur through a chain of link in people. You must join the link and let your close links know what you seek in your life. Just think about this....think of all the people who know right now and each of these individuals know their own group of friends and the chains gets bigger and bigger. You let your circle of friends know what you want and will tell their friends and so on and before you know it an event or chance opportunity come out. You must also develop a pleasing personality. Nobody likes to help someone who is rude and arrogant and selfish. Do you know that success is 15% technical skill and 85% personality. So the first rule is

  

   1-get out and make links

   So now you made your link what next? Cut your losses when bad streak occur. You must realize that streak both bad and good never last long. People had the habit of sticking with something however bad or wrong it because if they stick with something long enough it will give. I am telling you that this is hogwash. If you are losing in a relationship, business or career, then get out of it. One of the hardest things to do is to desert something you have put your worth,sweat,time and hard work into. But you must

your losses. You must admit that you made a mistake and forget about it and never turn back. But you know what a lot of people do....they stick with a bad hands and believe they are stick with it. Be it a relationship, or a job. They give up and don't see and solution to their bad hand. Leaving behind anything hurt...it will hurt you to the core. But you must let go of things and events that are holding you down. So the second rule to luck is:

         2-Cut your losses

   Always give yourself a time limit on things. If things don't turn out the way you want them....you should pack your bags and leave. If a good streak of luck doesn't not come your way before the time is up...pack up and go.

   Don't put binder on focus on just one thing...one goal.

Do you want to know the truth.....most successful people became successful because they had an open mind. They made their billions based on taking a side road toward their goal. Nobody has a straight path to success because everyone

is taking the same road they are taking....Successful people make their own roads....they take risks. Luck comes in many forms and disguises and if you only have one focal tunnel vision...you will miss a golden opportunity that comes you way Rule number three is:

   3-Risks

   You will not get anywhere if you don't risk. You have to go out on a limb to get anywhere in life. Fortune favors the bold. Play it safe and you will always live the life that everyone lives....no excitement or the chance to get ahead. There is no such thing as security in this world. Nothing outside of you can generate any security only you can....Prove it?....then right now just close your eyes and just imagine for a little while all your problems are gone...all your worries are gone...all your fear and anxiety of life is gone. What is it that you feel----you have just felt secure. You just spawn the feeling that you are seeking outside of yourself. You can even do this with the feeling of love.  Close your eyes and just imagine what it would feel to have someone love you... are you going it? Can you feel it? the warmth and safe, protective feeling of a loved one. You have created this feeling of security and love even though you may not have a loving person right now or have the money that can end your worries. This proves the old saying saying that everything you seek is within you. You generate the feeling of love and sadness, fear or security. This is why successful people are without fear...this is the reason why they generate them self to act. They realize there's nothing to fear except fear.

   Don't believe people when they say that the reason they are successful is because of their own doing only. Believe me luck has a lot to do with success. Bill Gates wouldn't be where they are now if they didn't get the IBM contract, and second his partner-Paul Allen didn't  buy the DOS program from a settle software company that was used in the software for IBM computer. John D. ROckefeller made his billion based on luck....he invested the little capital that he could save up with a Samuel Andrews into a new business of refining oil. Who knew what oil would be such a big things. And  Thomas John Watson, the man who founded IBM was at the right place at the right time.

   I know that everything that I have written  about luck goes against everything of the Worth Ethic.  These are crazy times and they demand crazy action

   So when things don't go your way.....don't get down on yourself. Don't get stuck and brag yourself, torment and punish yourself to hell. There is the luck factor in your life which you have no control of. The real problem is that people don't have the right to self-determination. What i mean by that is they don't have a goal that they are working toward.

Goal Setting

   The purpose of goals is to give us a blue-print. The purpose of goals is to make you get up from your ass and start doing. It isn't wise to pre planned all of your life on a piece of paper. A goal should be used as a guide, if something better comes along, you should be ready to relinquish your old plan. Don't get trapped that once you have written your goals, you can't change them...they are not written in stone. Don't ever forget the luck/self-determination ratio. The next half of this chapter we will deal with making goals.

   I would like you to meet two friends of mine, David and John. David is an remounce, famous and wealthy pianist, who is very talented. John is another individual who is an unknown, not so rich, but is almost equally talented pianist. The thing that is holding John down, who too should be successful is lack of desire. If you don't have a desire..then what will make you get out of your bed and set out to the door. No desire means no action. The lack of action...the lack of desire is the reason why one person takes a path of failure and a person with the same type of ability will take the path of success.

   Sit down with yourself and decide what exactly is it that you want? Two out of a hundred people in this society

know exactly what they and these two are the one that are successful. If you don't believe me go and ask your friend and most likely they will say" I don't know".

   Most people go through life getting so little out of it. They let events occur to them, not so much by choice, but rather by chance. What I mean by that is they allow life to decide what it wants from them and things can change immediately if they decide what they want from life.

   If you don't have a goal, you do not know where you are going. You let situation,environment and events of life to guide you instead of you guiding it. you will merely drift. You will never be in the job or occupation you choose to be.

   You are on your voyage through life. You are on a boat on the stream of life, unless you tell the captain, which is you, where you want to go, you will forever drift. Never going anywhere,always on the same point that you have started. So many people wander aimlessly through life with no goals for themselves. They are drifters who go through the motions of living, never reaching their full potential.

   Decide now what you want from life. Decide now where you want to go. Tomorrow will be yours . But be sure that you will pick a goal that will motivate you. It must aspire you with great desire to achieve.

   In deciding what your goals are, make sure it is your goal and not your parents, friends, or anyone, except yours. Don't become a lawyer if you don't want to be one, or anything sles at that matter. Because if you choose a goal that is not what you want, the motivated force will not be there.

   Do what you want. DO something that you love to do. I have seen people who are in the job that their parents wanted them to be, only to find that they are unhappy and ididn't like it. Make sure then , it is your goal and you will save yourself a lot of time and discomfort. To be happy and successful, do what you love to do and nothing else besides that.