preaching was not on my mind at all. I despised anything to do with preachers. I wanted to fit in, and preachers children normally do not fit in with the in-crowd. LESSON: Stop trying to be like others and be yourself. If you think you need a crowd, get with the crowd that is going to church and the crowd that is getting A’s in school. Lynn Swann said: “Why try to fit into a crowd that after you graduate from high school, you will probably never see again?” As you will see in the next letter, I have made some more mistakes, but these are some of the big ones. Avoid these pitfalls, and you can save yourself a lot of heartache and trouble, and you can get down the success highway much faster. Avoiding Mistakes, Daniel
P.T.: All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. —Winston Churchill A man’s errors are his portals of discovery. —James Joyce When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. —Hugh White 40