Fenton Richard - The Diamond Line: A Magical Journey of Personal Success and Self-Discovery

Copyright 2015 by Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz

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Author of the original Acres of Diamonds story on which this work of fiction is based, and a man far ahead of his time in the understanding of the principles of success.

The hard-working, success-bound entrepreneurhungry for all the best life has to offerand willing to do what it takes to get it.

Which, of course, includes reading.

To quote our friend Andrew Carnegie whom youll get to know better in the following pages

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never-failing spring in the desert.

I have long believed there are two ways to share knowledge with people. The first is to push facts and information out at people. The second is to pull people in through the use of a story. In fact, experts claim that stories are 22 times more memorable than facts alone.

I have no reason to doubt the validity of this, and have always admired writers who can teach me a lesson through a story.

To this day, many of the books that have helped me in my personal growth journey have been delivered through stories. My list of favorites includes:

• The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason
• The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions by Richard Bach
• The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Along with a number of others.

The Diamond Line by Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz is destined to take its place on the short list of classics.

Richard and Andrea first came on my radar screen when I discovered their personal development masterpiece, Go for No! And when they approached me to write the foreword to this book, I did not hesitate to say yes.

The Diamond Line is a clever reimagining of the motivational classic, Acres of Diamonds, by Russell Conwell, first published as a book in 1890. In The Diamond Line, however, you will be taken back to an imaginary moment in time before the book was written, having the chance to meet some of the greatest icons in history, including PT Barnum, Andrew Carnegie, Frederick Douglass, and several other interesting and enlightening characters.

I'm sure we've all thought about being able to go back in time and meet some of our heroes.

In The Diamond Line you get the chance to do exactly that!

Russell Conwell not only believed it was possible for any person to become richhe believed it was a persons duty to do so. Furthermore, Conwell felt that each of us is standing in the middle of our acres of diamondsthat everything we need to achieve success and personal wealth is right beneath our feetif only we are able to recognize it.

I, too, believe that success isand has always beenwithin you.

And now, with The Diamond Line, another tool has been placed in your hands to help bring that success to the surface in your life.

-Eric Worre
Author of Go Pro and founder of Network Marketing Pro

www.networkmarketingpro.com

I t was one week before the 2014 IGSBE Conference, and I wanted to go badly. My wife, however, was completely against it.

I know, Christopher, Katie said. But we dont have the money. And besides, I cant get the time off, Katie added, and you said that if we were going to go to IGSBE, wed go together.

The 16th Annual IGSBE Conference was being held in New York CityIGSBE being an abbreviation for the International Gathering of Small Business Entrepreneursand I felt that attending the event would be good for our business.

I remained silent.

Once the business grows a bit, we can do all sorts of things, Katie continued, filling the conversational void created by my unwillingness to accept the reality of the situation.

Are you going to say something? Katie asked.

Again, I remained silent.

Well, Im going to bed, Katie said. Dont stay up too late, and turn off the TV when you come.

Katie kissed me on the forehead and walked off.

Im sorry. Youre right, I said. Maybe next year, huh? But Katie didnt hear me. She was already gone. There was definitely an apology in my future.

I grabbed the remote and started flipping through channels, landing on a biography about the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

So, Steve, what is the key to success? the interviewer on TV asked.

The key? Im not sure theres a singular key, Jobs responded, but Id say to not let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice and to have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Im trying, Steve, I really am.

Katie was right, of course. There was no way she could get time off during the school year, and money had been extremely tight since Id made the decision to quit my job to focus on building the home-based business wed started a year earlier.

WWSD? I wondered.

Steve would create another cool product and put another dent in the world