Chapter 1. Limitless Beliefs Equal a Limitless Life
was over and I was still not growing, my father took me to the doc- tors. Good thing I went. For some reason, my body was not producing the right hormones to start puberty. So I was prescribed some sort of steroid and an appetite enhancer. I still remember Dr Kim and how he saved my high school life. Once I started the medication, I started puberty right away, I grew about 9 inches in a year and gained a bunch of weight. I am still only 5'8" but if I hadn’t gone to the doctors I may have never grown any taller. So thank you Dr Kim. Even before seeing Dr. Kim, I knew there was something inside of me growing; my outer appearance did not match what I was starting to feel on the inside. I didn’t believe that just because I was smaller than other kids I was inferior in any way. I took the name-calling, the odd looks, and the negativity that was surround- ing me and used it to my advantage. I’d say, “Someday I will show you all. No matter how big or small I am, I will succeed.” You know, a funny thing started happening—the more I told myself this, the more I believed it. I was growing both physically and mentally. By the end of 11th grade, I had a firewood cutting business and hired bunch of the bigger guys from high school to help split and carry the wood. These were some of the same guys who made fun of me just a few years earlier. I had an attractive girl- friend, I was making money, and I was starting to blossom as a person. Even though we had very little money while I was growing up, I bought a newer car that had been rolled over in an accident for next to nothing. I worked everyday after school with my father when I was fifteen to fix it up, and just a few months after I got my license, the car was done and it looked great. Thus, I was one of the few kids who had their own car. Best of all, I paid for it with mini- mal cash and sweat equity. It was a nice car and I was making money. I applied what I learned about hard work to school as well and by 10th grade I was in the regular English class. I also started to believe that no one can make me feel inferior without my permission. I love the saying, “it’s not the size of the dog
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