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increasingly greater resistance. He saw that such resistance could come
from other sources besides the use of weights. Conducting his own experiments
and using his own body as a subject, he took action and put his
ideas into practice <strong>with</strong>out the use of the weights and the other equipment
which he could not afford.
<strong>Work</strong>ing his muscles daily and applying his methods, he gained the
strength and muscles he sought. Finally, he was ready to meet his tormentors.
He actually sought them out. They wanted no part of him. Rather
than fight the strong man the former weakling had become, they fled.
Angelo Siciliano, however, continued to develop his body. As many
reached a goal after working a plan, he set a new goal. His success as a
bodybuilder led him to enter bodybuilding contests. At first, he did poorly.
But as he continued, and <strong>with</strong> the future he was creating constantly in
mind, he got better and better. Finally came the day that he won a major
bodybuilding title: “The World’s Most Perfectly Developed Man.” Angelo
Siciliano had created his own future in a big way, but he still wasn’t done.
Now Siciliano set a new goal. He had a vision of strong young men
who had once been weak, all changed by his methods, which he called
“dynamic tension.” He put together a bodybuilding course which he sold
through the mail. That course made Siciliano a multi-millionaire. Over
the next fifty years, tens of thousands of his mail-order students benefited
from it. So powerful was the course that he envisioned that it still
sells today, more than thirty years after his death. If you are a male, you
will probably recognize the name he adopted, for long ago Siciliano
changed his name to better reflect who and what he had become. The
name the world came to know him by is “Charles Atlas.”
In every field, there are those like Charles Atlas that may have few
resources to begin <strong>with</strong>. They create their own futures. They may not have
strength or wealth or education or anything that you think may be necessary
for success in any given field of human endeavor. Yet they create billion-dollar
corporations and even whole new industries. And they attain
other goals as well.
For example, Madonna is world famous as a singer and performer, yet
she never took singing lessons. She actually moved from her native
Michigan in 1977 to New York <strong>with</strong> dreams of becoming a ballet dancer,
but she soon changed her mind. She wanted to sing. To create this future,
she formed a band called “The Breakfast Club” <strong>with</strong> a partner. However,
her singing abilities were not yet developed. So she started out playing