Zig: The Autiobiography of Zig Ziglar by Zig Ziglar

Author:Zig Ziglar [Ziglar, Zig]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780385507097
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2002-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

My Most Miserable Year

In 1959, after spending a frustrating year in Nashville, Tennessee, where my brother Judge and I worked as the home office general agents for a new life insurance company, my judgment only got worse as my aptitude for creating catastrophes improved. In the next twelve months I managed to move my family’s misery index to an all-time high. The Nashville insurance company, we discovered painfully, had taken its product to market before it was ready to sell. It didn’t take long for us to figure out what the problems were and to determine we had boarded a ship that wasn’t going to sail very fast or very far. Ever on the lookout for the next big thing, I resigned my position with the insurance company and joined what I thought was a new enterprise with great potential, a small company called Vigor-Wealth. Associating with Vigor-Wealth required that we move our family to Greenville, South Carolina. And the whole situation proved disastrous in no time.

Vigor-Wealth was a line of nutritional products that was scientifically sound, but, sadly enough, the company lacked the financial resources to really capitalize on the market. I made the move for at least one reason that was wrong: I was getting out of something that I knew was destined to be a long and difficult struggle and was using Vigor-Wealth as an escape hatch. While the product was good, the lack of available capital was almost immediately obvious. A deciding factor for me was the fact that a well-known speaker and author of national reputation had publicly stated that with his reputation at stake, while serving on the board and as an adviser, he could not afford to let the company fail. This was one of the lures that attracted me to the company. Yet what he said and what he did were two different things. In a matter of weeks we realized that we had made yet another bad move, one that would not have that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but that rather promised only more frustration. So after just three months in Greenville, disgusted with the way things turned out with Vigor-Wealth, we moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Surely, I thought, we would get a break soon; the streak of bad luck couldn’t continue forever.

Along with the frustrations that generally go with bad choices, I was disturbed to notice that my tendency to blame circumstances seemed to be growing. And yet, I still felt I had the ability to make the right connection and get my career back on track and achieve success. The long series of blind alleys couldn’t continue indefinitely. In retrospect, I realize that I was fast running out of legitimate reasons for feeling so optimistic, but with a family I had no choice. I kept looking for the right opportunity. My willingness to work was never in question, and so we made the next move.

When we arrived in Atlanta we moved into a thousand-square-foot

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