Final Answer Poem by Curtis Johnson

Final Answer
By Curtis Johnson

Must we always expect a “Yes” for our every endeavor?
It is as though we are constantly saying,
“Motivate me. Adjust me. Amend me.
But please don’t say “No” to me! ”
Just what is it about “No” that we do not understand?

Not looking for a new motto, I was cleaning an office building.
Like typical businesses do, this company was seeking to increase sales.
My business was office cleaning, and I was toiling to finish and go home.
That is, until I was arrested and captured by nine words on a marker board.

For several weeks, I observed these words that were worthy of note. The nine word sentence was very useful as motivational tools to enhance sales and the bottom line. Every week I stared at these words thinking, “I can most certainly utilize this motto at some point in my life and profession”.

It was some time prior to November 18,2009 that I first noticed the
Sales motto that said, “Never take ‘no’ until you have heard it twice”. On the above date, I was even more drawn by three similar though different magical words on the board.

It appeared that something interesting had happened between the first time I noticed the nine words and the day I saw the three words. Perhaps sales had dropped, requiring new motivational adjustments. An amendment to the motto read, “Never Take No”.
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