Growing up on a Navajo Indian reservation, he was the only Caucasian boy in his high school senior class.
Most of his peers and fellow classmates didn’t like him because of the color of his skin. They held an inherent anger towards this young white boy, mostly because of what his ancestors had done to thiers.
The young man found himself bullied every single day.
Each day, his school was let out at four in the afternoon, at three-fifty every day his heart would start pounding and he knew what would happen next.
As soon as school let out, his classmates would chase him, and if caught, he got beat up.
Recess and gym classes were dangerous times for this young man. From the time he was eight to sixteen, he lived in constant fear. At the end of every day, he would ask permission to leave early and get a head start before the bullies would start to chase after him.
One day, while in tenth grade, a boy his own age put gum in his hair and slugged him in the mouth. He went home with a fat lip, bleeding, and crying.
When his father found out, the boy’s father believed that if he fought back the bullies would leave him alone, so he put the young man in the car and set out to find the kid who had slugged him.
When they finally found the boy, he ran away, but the father ran after him, caught him and presented him to his son.
His dad tried to make the boy hit the bully, but he refused to fight and only stood there crying.
Disgusted, the father put the boy in the car and with remorse, told the boy, “I can’t believe I have a son who is a coward.”
He had said those words with such disgust and discouragement, that the boy never forgot that day and he became sure his father no longer liked him.
Jack Zufelt was a coward and he knew it.
His father knew it too. Everyone knew it.
Jack was teased, taunted, and mercilessly ridiculed. For years Jack lived in fear and shame.
Of course, school was not a good experience and he did poorly. His teachers said such things to him as: “You’re such a loser,” “You’ll never amount to anything,” & “How can you be so dumb?”
When Jack left high school, he was convinced that he was dumb and a loser.
At age nineteen he took a job as a milkman, and quickly found out he hated it, but his boss took a liking to Jack and offered him the chance to work at his karate studio as the manager. Jack immediately jumped on the offer.
For years Jack had lived in fear of being beaten up and had suffered the shame of being a coward. For the next 8 years, he threw his heart and soul in to learning karate.
He was driven by a desire.
He had an intense desire to defend himself and regain his self-esteem. No one was ever going to hurt Jack Zufelt again.
He was driven from within to never again be afraid of any person, to get back at those bullies, and to win his father’s respect.
That desire was so powerful it drove him to achieve many of the fighting skills of a black belt.
It wasn’t easy, as Jack suffered many injuries along the way. One time he had a broken wrist, yet entered a tournament. He came out of the tournament without a win, but more importantly, he had earned the reputation of being “one tough guy.”
Jack started out with no talent, no self-esteem, and no athletic ability to suggest he could do what he did or become what he became, but never the less, he did it.
Why?
Because he had a deep desire, a passion if you will, …..he had what Jack calls, a “Core Desire.”
It was no ordinary want or wish, that deep desire was what caused Jack Zufelt to overcome all odds and obstacles to obtain what he did.
He had tapped into the energy and passion of his Core Desire, and had refused to let his past determine his future.
Jack Zufelt is now one of the top professional speakers in America, a highly acclaimed trainer, winner of a Presidential Medal of Merit, a $70,000 a month plus network marketer, and author of many books and tapes.
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