Hal Elrod

Take care.

2012.

Yeah, I have a bad memory, so I published it on 12-12-12 so that I would never forget the pub date.

Yeah, at 20 years old, I was selling Cutco cutlery.

So I was one of the top salespeople for the kitchen knife company and driving home from a meeting where I'd given a speech.

My car was hit head on by a drunk driver at 70 miles an hour.

It sent my car spinning and the car behind me crashed right into my driver's side door at around 70 miles an hour.

And if you can look to your left, imagine a car is coming at you and just crashes into your door at 70, just crushed the left side of my car into my body.

And instantaneously, I broke 11 bones, almost completely severed my ear, punctured my lung, ruptured my spleen.

And an hour later I was dead.

I was clinically dead for approximately six minutes after the paramedics and the rescue crew used the jaws of life to pull me out of the car.

And they resuscitated me, took me to the hospital and I was in a coma for six days and told I would never walk again.

And, you know, it's a long story short.

I just, I maintained a real positive focus.

on what I wanted.

I visualized walking again.

I thought about it.

I prayed about it.

I talked about it.

I imagined it.