A.J. called in today with his story about fear as he recalled the night that he became homeless. A.J. was running low on money and knew that he was not going to be able to afford rent that month. He had been pursuing his dreams and investing in his own business. When he approached his mentor he confessed that he was about to be homeless and things had not gone as planned. A.J. told his mentor that he was going to be probably heading back to his home town to live with his mother due to the financial strains. His mentor advised him not to go home and that the only way A.J. would find the success that he was looking for would be too tough it out, mentally and physically by suffering the challenges of homelessness while he pursued his dreams. A.J. did not back down from the challenge and faced his fear of being homeless. He reminds us that even when we are at our low points that this is only part of our story and not our whole story. A.J. always closes the speeches that he gives with a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire so he shared it with us in closing as well. It is a fitting poem because A.J. was pushed to the extreme and to the edge and he is now flying.
